San Diego eighth grader wins National Spelling Bee!
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:36 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old eighth grader from San Diego, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by spelling her own name.
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"It's a miracle!" Nandipati, who reads encyclopedias for fun, said after winning the contest with her correct spelling.
Second place went to Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Orlando, Florida, who finished in second place after misspelling "schwarmerei," a German word for excessive enthusiasm.
Arvind Mahankali, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Bayside Hills, New York, finished third for a second year in a row after failing to spell "schwannoma," a kind of nerve cell tumor.
Asked what she would do with her $30,000 in prize money, Nandipati, who reads encyclopedias for fun, said: "I don't know, save it for college."
While spelling her winning word, Nandipati stood before the microphone with her hands clasped.
She spelled "admittatur," an admission certificate, "arrondissement," a French urban district, and "saccharolytic," referring to the breakdown of sugars in metabolism, on her way to the title.
This reporter is not even going to make the obvious joke about how the winners of the spelling bee seem to all be Indian (but the guy at the credit card company who pretends to not be in Delhi can't understand a damned word I say) in favor of the jaw-dropping similarity between her first name and that of a certain severely-retarded vynsaniac.
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"It's a miracle!" Nandipati, who reads encyclopedias for fun, said after winning the contest with her correct spelling.
Second place went to Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Orlando, Florida, who finished in second place after misspelling "schwarmerei," a German word for excessive enthusiasm.
Arvind Mahankali, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Bayside Hills, New York, finished third for a second year in a row after failing to spell "schwannoma," a kind of nerve cell tumor.
Asked what she would do with her $30,000 in prize money, Nandipati, who reads encyclopedias for fun, said: "I don't know, save it for college."
While spelling her winning word, Nandipati stood before the microphone with her hands clasped.
She spelled "admittatur," an admission certificate, "arrondissement," a French urban district, and "saccharolytic," referring to the breakdown of sugars in metabolism, on her way to the title.
This reporter is not even going to make the obvious joke about how the winners of the spelling bee seem to all be Indian (but the guy at the credit card company who pretends to not be in Delhi can't understand a damned word I say) in favor of the jaw-dropping similarity between her first name and that of a certain severely-retarded vynsaniac.
