Sukanya Roy, of South Abington Township, Pa, holds up the trophy after winning the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition June 2, in National Harbor, Maryland. Her final winning word : 'cymotrichous'
Posted on 06/03/2011 4:42:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That’s completely kroxadelphific.
“...fine the words”? Too bad the reporter can’t spell.
Here are the champions of the Scripps national Spelling Bee the past 9 years and their sponsors and where they live... Do you notice what I’m noticing by looking at the names of most of the winners?
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2002 Pratyush Buddiga, Rocky Mountain News Denver, Colorado
2003 Sai R. Gunturi, The Dallas Morning News Dallas, Texas
2004 David Tidmarsh, South Bend Tribune South Bend, Indiana
2005 Anurag Kashyap, San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego, California
2006 Kerry Close, Asbury Park Press/Home News Tribune Spring Lake, New Jersey
2007 Evan O’Dorney, Contra Costa Times Walnut Creek, California
2008 Sameer Mishra, Journal and Courier West Lafayette, Indiana
2009 Kavya Shivashankar, The Olathe News Olathe, Kansas
2010 Anamika Veeramani, The Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio
2011 Sukanya Roy, Times Leader Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Seriously??! Leave it to an "American" journalist completely screw up a Spelling Bee story.
How is it the article didn’t mention here “school”????
Any bets she is home schooled and the press doesn’t want to acknowledge the fact?
Did anyone notice the percentage of recent winners who are of Indian heritage?
How is it the article didn’t mention here “school”????
HER school....!!!
I’m on cold meds........sheesh......
...But apparently my attention to writing detail sucks, too. Ughgh.
Good catch.
“Do you notice what I’m noticing by looking at the names of most of the winners?”
Yea, they got a head start. They already had a bunch of practice just learning to spell their names.
From http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/06/03/idINIndia-57470520110603 :
“An eighth grader at Abington Heights Middle School”
LOL.
But that’s odd. I’m not seeing any Shanequa’s or Anulikka’s on that list.
“Do you notice what I’m noticing by looking at the names of most of the winners?”
That’s because Indians take the education of their kids SERIOUSLY. While American kids are upstairs on video games and Facebook (or wasting their time playing sports that lead to nothing but concussions and other permanent injuries for 99.99% of the kids), Indian kids are in special after-school classes (all Indian, by the way), actually LEARNING what they should have been taught in their day-care school.
We Americans coddle kids and seem to want (or at least allow) them to do anything but sit down and learn - Indians are just the opposite.
Thankfully, we have a lot of Indians (and other high-grade immigrants) in this country, for without their academic standards, we would have been Third World decades ago, given our education system here, and our screw-up values.
I will never understand the big deal in this. Spelling odd words is part luck and part “acquired” skill. Big whoop.
I agree.
I am not a big fan of memory games.
However, the persistence and hard work needed to win such competitions probably have spin-offs in other realms.
I recall reading somewhere that a large proportion of Spelling Bee champs become neurosurgeons and cardiologists...
Too funny if you think about it....
Actually, IMHO, it should be a written test...because spelling is the "written" word.
Huh? Spell check wouldn't win the bee.
Yes ... I noticed. Tonto, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo were all home schooled too.
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