And the winner is …..
June 1st, 2006 by Anand
275 contestants, 20 rounds and the winner is “URSPRACHE”
If you have no clue of what I am talking about, then its all about the “Scripps National Spelling Bee” competition that just concluded an hour back.
Those kids were awesome. Kudos to all those kids, Congrats to the Champion Katherine “Kerry” Close from New jersey.
Her winning words were - SYNUSIA, TOWHEE, SHEDU, HUKILAU, CLINAMEN, RECREMENTITIOUS, PSITTACISM, AVBADE, KANONE, IZZAT,TMESIS, KUNDALINI & URSPACHE.
Our favorite was Rajiv (Speller no 140), hard luck. his losing word was “HEILIGENSCHEIN”. This was his 5th apperance on the spelling bee.
word list (round wise) - (W meaning spelled wrong)
Round 8 - EXERGUE, KNAIDEL, NAURUZ (W), MANDILION, GEMATRIAL (W), RUBASSE, SYNUSIA, EPITYPHLITIS, HECHSHER, MITHRAEUM (W), GLOCOSO (W) & ESCARGOTIERE (4 spelled wrong)
Round 9 - KAMAAINA, FORMENKREIS, LOPHOPHYTOSIS, BABISM, TOWHEE, CORYPHAEUS, SPACELATED, COLLYRIUM (W) & PAILLON (W)(2 spelled wrong)
Round 10 - SCIOLTO, GUILLOCHE, KILIM, YIZKOR, SHEDU, APPENZELL (W) & CROQUNIGNOLE (1 spelled wrong)
Round 11 - DOUANE, SYRINGADENOUS (W), HEILIGENSCHEIN (W), HUKILAU & AUSTAUSCH (2 spelled wrong)
Round 12- DASYPHYLLOUS, CLINAMEN & ICTERITIIOUS (W)(1 spelled wrong)
Round 13 - MACHICOTAGE & RECREMENTITIOUS
Round 14 - ESQUISSE & PSITTACISM
Round 15 - MAIEUTIC & AVBADE
Round 16 - POIESIS & KANONE
Round 17 - TUTOYER & IZZAT
Round 18 - KOINE & TMESIS
Round 19 - WELTSCHERZ (W) & KUNDALINI ( 1spelled wrong)
Round 20 - URSPRACHE …….Winner !!!
The youngest was an Indian American kid Kavya Shivshankar (10 years old) and most others in the age group of 12-14. Most of this kids are home Schooled but they go through rigorous practice with friends & coach.
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That’s great to know. I have read from media reports that Indian kids do brilliantly in spelling bee contests. Last year’s tournament was telecast in a sports channel over here in India… Really amazing kids! Btw, is home schooling a trend in US?? Is it like how we do correspondence course over here in India?
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Lot of people prefer home schooling
Here we have three systems
Public schools ( totally free)
Private schools ( 2 costly)
Home schooling. U can teach your kid what (s)he likes, when (s)he wants. (more freedom).I would not say that it is totally like correspondence but something similar where parents put more effort in the child’s education. Correspondence is more like study by yourself with the study material provided.
This was the first time that ABC had it telecasted on primetime ( 8 PM time slot). Last year we had it on ESPN.
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