06-01-2019, 12:04 PM
(05-31-2019, 07:37 AM)bbm233 Wrote: Those kids blew me away...I was hoping, hoping, hoping that they would all spell their last words correctly. And the pure joy on their faces when they realized they were going to win. The amazing thing was the camaraderie amongst the contestants in the earlier rounds, even when they thought the only way for them to win was for the others to fail.
They must have trained as hard or harder than any elite athlete - the amount of stuff crammed into their brains is impressive. The tension and need to perform under pressure was as apparent as any sporting event. Thanks to ESPN for televising this.
These kids have achieved an incredibly impressive mastery of spelling, haven't they?
Here's a list of the words correctly spelled by Rishik Gandharsi, the co-champion from San Jose. You can go all your life without ever seeing most of these:
crambo
invincible
Yiddishkeit
hendiadys
Aufgabe
hinalea
keriah
frailejón
myctophid
bottarga
coryphée
chelydroid
Nyaya
fravashi
tjaele
rhathymia
murrain
anthocyanin
auslaut