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Indian from Indiana wins Spelling Bee
By: Santosh :+: Under: Brown in AmericaOn: ⋅ May 31, 2008 ⋅
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Actually Indian-American kid from Indiana but Indian rhymed better with Indiana. Sameer Mishra, a 8th grader won the spelling bee by spelling “guerdon”. I now know “guerdon” means “reward”. Congratulations to Sameer. Second place went to another desi kid, Sidharth Chand of Michigan, who was tripped up by “prosopopoeia”, a word that confounds my Firefox spell checker also. [USA Today]
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