22 DAYS REMAIN IN KAVYA'S REIGN: Today's Spelling Bee note: this will be as un-top-heavy a Bee as we've seen -- only one four-time repeater and ten three-year repeaters. No five-timers like Katharine Close, Tia Thomas, Matthew Evans or John Tamplin, and the only four-timer is the only one of last year's finalists whom no one chose in the 2009 pool.
(In each of the last four years, by way of comparison, we had at least 4-5 four-timers make it to the second day of the competition, from what I can tell. Paging the Gladwells among us for an explanation for this statistical blip.)
In your post title, isn't her name Kavya?
ReplyDeleteTwice a year, I misspell something in a spelling post. Fixed.
ReplyDeleteI should note, by the way, that one of the competitors is a seventh grader at the school at which my son will be starting kindergarten in the fall. W00t!
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