Thursday, May 31, 2012

National spelling bee

  • The National Spelling Bee takes place in a hotel that looks like it swallowed a village. Inside the building are smaller buildings. There are indoor trees, some of them real. There are indoor birds.
  • (Washington Post)
  • CINCINNATI, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old speller from San Diego, Calif., won the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old eighth grader from San Diego, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by spelling guetapens, a French word for ambush or trap.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • With confetti falling, Snigdha Nandipati, 14, of San Diego, right, is embraced by her brother Sujan Nandipati, 10, after she won the National Spelling Bee by spelling the word guetapens in Oxon Hill, Md., on Thursday. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.
  • (Charleston Daily Mail)
  • The most experienced speller remaining in the National Spelling Bee breezed through most of two semifinal rounds with his usual confidence. But with one word separating him from his first time in the finals, he was flustered.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • But the 6-year-old still managed to win the crowd's hearts as the youngest person ever to compete in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.
  • (Time)
  • May 30, 2012: Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Va., the youngest speller ever to compete in the National Spelling Bee, reacts after misspelling her word, ingluvies, in the third round of the bee in Oxon Hill, Md.
  • (FOX News)
  • NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - Frank Cahill of Parker stumbled in the finals of this years Scripps National Spelling Bee tonight after a spectacular run for the first-time national contestant. The word that tripped him up was porwigle, which means tadpole.
  • (9News)
  • Los Angeles will not have a local to root for as the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off Thursday morning near the nation's capital.
  • (Los Angeles Times)

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