The word for wavy's a winner ...
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June 4, 2011, Saturday
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without seeing it in print, would you have known how to spell "cymotrichous?"
Well, Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, didn't need a dictionary to spell it out on Thursday to win the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Roy, taking part in the annual competition in the United States for the third time, won after 20 rounds in a final that went on until the late evening. The competition is open to students up to age 15 who are not beyond eighth grade.
A Bengali speaker, Roy travels to India every summer to visit family and hopes to pursue a career in international relations.
An eighth grader at Abington Heights Middle School, Roy traced the letters of each word on her hands, round by round, increasing her confidence, she said. After winning, she was shaking with excitement. "My heart started pounding, I guess. I couldn't believe it," Roy said after receiving her trophy.
Cymotrichous means having wavy hair. She said she knew the word immediately.
"I just wanted to spell it right," Roy said. "I really didn't want to get it wrong."
Besides the trophy, she took home a US$30,000 cash prize, a US$2,500 US savings bond, a complete reference library, a US$5,000 scholarship, US$2,600 in reference works and other prizes.
The 275 spellers who started the bee on Wednesday included students from the US and its territories, as well as China, the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
The first National Spelling Bee was held in 1925.
Well, Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, didn't need a dictionary to spell it out on Thursday to win the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Roy, taking part in the annual competition in the United States for the third time, won after 20 rounds in a final that went on until the late evening. The competition is open to students up to age 15 who are not beyond eighth grade.
A Bengali speaker, Roy travels to India every summer to visit family and hopes to pursue a career in international relations.
An eighth grader at Abington Heights Middle School, Roy traced the letters of each word on her hands, round by round, increasing her confidence, she said. After winning, she was shaking with excitement. "My heart started pounding, I guess. I couldn't believe it," Roy said after receiving her trophy.
Cymotrichous means having wavy hair. She said she knew the word immediately.
"I just wanted to spell it right," Roy said. "I really didn't want to get it wrong."
Besides the trophy, she took home a US$30,000 cash prize, a US$2,500 US savings bond, a complete reference library, a US$5,000 scholarship, US$2,600 in reference works and other prizes.
The 275 spellers who started the bee on Wednesday included students from the US and its territories, as well as China, the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
The first National Spelling Bee was held in 1925.
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