Tag: spelling bees (last 300)
(Vid) Comedy short about how brown guys have no game shows the spelling bee faint at 3:52.
(WSJ) In ’85, now-sports doc Balu Natarajan correctly spelled ‘milieu,’ becoming the first Indian-American to win the nat’l spelling bee.
(Vid) Funny stuff from a spelling makhi
(CNN) Kavya Shivashankar won $40K in the nat’l spelling bee, whose profile has shot up since coverage in films and TV.
(CBS) Kavya Shivashankar of Kansas won the national spelling bee on muscles developed from spelling her surname. The last 3 winners have all claimed they wanted to be brain surgeons. Malcolm Gladwell is busy developing a theory. [
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(Spellingbee) 7/11 finalists in the U.S. spelling bee appear to be desi. That’s racist! ;)
(SF Chron) 8th grader Ramya Auroprem is in the nat’ll spelling bee finals after dunking on purlieu, kichel and senryu.
(Vid Humor) Spelling bee potty mouth. I LOL’d, then felt dirty in my soul.
(Spellingbee) At least 20% (9 out of 45) of the semifinalists in this year’s national spelling bee are desi. Airs today on ESPN and finals tomorrow.
(SAJA) The State Farm South Asian Spelling Bee. No kidding.