A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

CAN YOU WIN THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE? Here's your chance: uh-po-juh-TOOR-uh, from the Italian, meaning "an embellishing note, usually one step above or below the note it precedes and indicated by a small note or special sign."

Congratulations to Anurag Kashyap for winning this year's Bee, spelling that and all these other words too. (Lots of Italian roots, it seems.)

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Aliya went down. Samir just went down on "roscian."

Anurag Kashyap won the whole thing on [see above] and then burst into tears.

And that's it. It's over. We have ourselves a new champion.

I worry, though, about Samir. I hope he lives to spell another day...