I'm finding it humerous that someone with a nearly unspellable name (Snigdha Nandipati) won this year's national spelling bee. After learning to spell her own name, I'm guessing that learning to spell words like "guetapens" (the winning word), "stochastically", "rhonchus", "luteovirescent", "saccharolytic", and "arrondissement" was probably a piece of cake. (Also amusing is the fact that as I type these words, spell-check doesn't like a single one of them - perhaps I'm mistyping them so don't study from this list!).
Ms. Nadipati goes to my daughters' small and somewhat nerdy school, so she's quite a hero there. She "studies 10-12 hours on weekends and six hours on weekdays." Wow! And I thought my younger daughter, who studies about half that, was way, way overboard on the whole studying thing!
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