NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND


Scroll down in this post for video of numb nuts/numbnuts/numnah—plus a link to video of EUONYM. Congrats, Sameer—and all the rest of you spellers!


Tia Thomas walked off with oxylophytic. (People are criticizing her, but she's well-prepared...and she's also dealing with having the number 13. So cut her some slack.)

Sameer Mishra sailed through sinicize.

Sidharth Chand spat out aptyalism.

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Tia Thomas flubbed opificer. Trouble for Tia!

Sameer Mishra spells blood. He's got hyphaeresis. Tia's out!

First-timer Sidharth Chand gets Kulturkampf. This could be a big break for the Chandster. It is!

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Sameer Mishra has a cheesy word: taleggio. Mmmmm...risotto in the sentence! He gets it!

Sidharth Chand gets introuvable—and finds his way through it!

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Round 15

Sameer (we're on a first-name basis now) gets esclandre and SCORES!

Sidharth fails to find his way through prosopopoeia.

So this could be it for Sameer, who gets guerdon—and carries the burden. He's the winner on his fourth attempt! Way to go, Sameer—who scored the top prize despite his Round Two mispelling of sudation. Crazy!!

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Here's Sameer's "numb nuts" moment, destined to compete with EUONYM in its virality.



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