- Sure to thrill Shonda -- Samir Patel is back for the fifth straight year. Regarding his regional Bee, "He says he did not encounter any words he didn't know how to spell. And, truth be told, he knew all the words the other spellers got as well."
- Meet Utah's Kunal Sah, who will be competing for the second time despite the fact that his parents were just deported back to India after sixteen years of legal residence in the States.
- The folks up in Easton had hoped they fixed the problem that caused so much controversy last year. They did. Indeed, it looks like the national rules were changed (see #10) to protect against such idiocy recurring.
- 2006 national champion Katharine "Kerry" Close has enjoyed her year on top, though her hometown paper still misspells her first name.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
I-N-E-L-U-C-T-A-B-L-E: I wasn't planning to begin our coverage of the 2007 Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee quite yet, but a few items about this year's spellers have come across my desk worth sharing:
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