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| Scripps National Spelling Bee 2012 Winner |
The 8th grader clinched the title after spelling the French-derived word "guetapens" correctly in the 13th round of the Champions Finals held on Thursday night at the Gaylord National, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Coming in at second place was Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old from Orlando, Fla. while Arvind Mahankali, a 12-year-old from Bayside Hills, N.Y. settled for third place for the second straight year.
Nandipati, 14, is a student at Francis Parker School, a private school in Mission Valley. A semifinalist last year, she became the fifth consecutive Indian-American to win the title and 10th in the last 14 years.
As the winner, Nandipati received a $30,000 cash prize and an engraved loving cup trophy from Scripps, a $2,500 savings bond, a reference library from Merriam-Webster, $2,600 in reference works and a lifetime membership to Britannica Online Premium from Encyclopædia Britannica, $5,000 cash prize from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, and an online course and a Nook eReader from K12 Inc.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe; as well as the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. This year is the 85th time the competition was held.
The judges should be disqualified. I've been reading at least a book a week for the past 50 years and have never come across this word. It is apparently only used in French, and whoever translated the film title "The Getaway" into French as Guet Apens had not a clue.
ReplyDeleteokay, i cannot even find the word in a dictionary so i totally agree, this is not a word that should be part of a spelling bee. The one rule that I know for sure is that it has to be in the dictionary. I know that is what it used to be part of the rules and it is only fair. Made up words and foreign words do not count.
ReplyDeleteokay, i cannot even find the word in a dictionary so i totally agree, this is not a word that should be part of a spelling bee. The one rule that I know for sure is that it has to be in the dictionary. I know that is what it used to be part of the rules and it is only fair. Made up words and foreign words do not count.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point, exactly, of the spelling bee? Seems to be another of those frauds perpetuated for T.V. and business.
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ReplyDeleteThe spelling bee is a prestigious contest and nationally followed and broadcast. Recently Anand was engaged in a thrilling match against Gelfand and most Indians were not watching. Should we not telecast national chess or quiz contests in order to make them popular? Maybe some olympiads too. I find it rather amusing that Indians have to follow what desiKids are doing in the US. Maybe someone can enlighten me about some nationally followed contest of analogous nature, not musiCcontests or IndianIdols.
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