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  • Pennsylvania girl wins 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee

    06/03/2011 4:42:17 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies · 1+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | 06/03/2011 | JARONDAKIE PATRICK
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- In the end 14-year-old Sukanya Roy of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with her penchants for writing invisible words on her palm, emerged the victor of the late night showdown at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Her word: cymotrichous, meaning having the hair wavy. "It's just amazing. It's hard to fine the words," said Sukanya, who has spent the last three days working her way through an impressively complicated set of words with origins from around the globe. One by one, other Bee hopefuls were ultimately defeated by such polysyllabic tongue-twisters as sciamachy, a word that means fighting with...