Our New Spelling Bee Champion!
13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas beat out 11 finalists for the title of the greatest speller who ever spelled (under the age 14) at the Scripps National Spelling Bee last night. Kavya won $40,000 in cash and prizes as well as a giant trophy/fruit bowl/dust collector. This was Kavya's fourth time at the bee and it will also be her last, because of her age.
The word that won it for Kavya was laodicean. Fun fact for a Friday: laodicean is how Paula Abdul spells Lidocaine when scribbling an order to her back alley pharmacist because her mouth is too numb to speak.
Watching the spelling bee is always entertaining. Especially if you partake in a little audience participation. I like to rev up the bong, sip on a little Franzia on ice and compete right along with these tiny geniuses. Last night, I didn't get one word right. That's really not a surprise to anyone who reads this blog. I mean, I traded my Speak & Spell for a She-Ra doll when I was little. There you go.
But I didn't even come close last night. I even tried all the tricks! I wrote the word down on my arm with an air pen. I cupped my hands over my mouth and slowly sounded out the word. Even when they flashed the word on the screen, I still couldn't spell it! Does Sylvan Learning Center host a nightly happy hour?
Anyspellingishard, congratulations to Kavya! She is not only a spelling genius, but she is also connoisseur of French cheeses!
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Why do Indian/Asian kids win everything?!
I love watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee, it's so gripping and intense, hehehe. Reminds me of "Akeelah and the Bee," such a great movie. Congratulations to Kavya!
Congrats Kavya!!! If I was up there in that contest I would've cried. I hated middle school (except for recess ofcourse, monkey bars!!) anywais, the thing I hated about it was getting up and reading outloud. I was great in math, spelling and history/geography. but then in highschool I was only good in English/wrting class. and always questioning in Religion class. hahaha. ooooh those days were interesting. ok back to the post, ummm laodicean I thought that was some sort of a sea creature...guess not.
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Hearing about spelling bees always pisses me off just a little, because I was and am an excellent speller, but my podunk little school never participated in spelling bees.
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Submitted by angel_i on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:59pm.
Ok - Americans, it's beat down time. Time for you to beat me down, I mean....
I can't get over how popular "The Spelling Bee" is in the States and yet so FEW people can actually spell.
I dunno. I know some dummies in Canada who always type "neighbour."
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"Fun fact for a Friday: laodicean is how Paula Abdul spells Lidocaine when scribbling an order to her back alley pharmacist because her mouth is too numb to speak."
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When i first read this quickly at work i thought that sentence said: "I wrote the word down on my arm with my air peen." I was like "damn that's talented!" and then i realized that doesn't make sense and that i'm an idiot. Then i went back to napping at my desk.
Oh MK-you are so fucking funny! "reve up the bong and compete right along with these tiny geniuses"
What an adorable kid and she can spell as well!!
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That's how it was for my mom, she's from Romania and came here in her 20's. If you weren't the best of the best, you were effed.
My school itself definitely wasn't high pressure. It was the parents.
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Sensimina, schools from my neck of hte woods are intense. Sadly, when I was in school, a few kids killed themselves because of the pressure. My mom still has recurring nightmares around school. I was in school from 8-6 every day--half the day on what was college level math and sciences, the other half on linguistics and lit. When you were around 13, you were tested for certain paths--and if you didn't qualify for university-track studies, you were going to trade or business school.
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I was pretty good at the spelling bee,and freakishly good at geography.
Yaaaay Kavya! Make her HSOTD MK.The kids from India KILL in the spelling bee.Actually they're just all-around academic snipers.
maybe I blocked itout as some early childhood trauma, but I don't remember us ever having something like this in our schools. We had math contests and had to read our essays out loud. Maybe because Polish doesn't have difficult spelling rules like English does? For the record, I doubt I could spell most of those words out loud without having to really think about it. Why the Fuck is English spelling so hard?
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she has the advantage of having a really difficult effin name she had early practice learning to spell that. or something
Fruit bowl/dust collector. LMAO! Congrats to the winner!
SO she can clearly spell (well, not MY name)
But can she WRITE or even READ????
Got HER!!!!
Ok - Americans, it's beat down time. Time for you to beat me down, I mean....
I can't get over how popular "The Spelling Bee" is in the States and yet so FEW people can actually spell. Of course, maybe that's why it's so highly esteemed. Seriously, if I see the word "tomarrow" one more time on MS I'm gonna start a rally! (Cuz I'm all Canadian like that;p)
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Oh nooooooooooo...I just spelled it for her...crying and stomping angrily....and then POOF..Rumpie disappears.
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Oh, I cried when the first kid who got a word wrong sat on her mom's lap and cried. I made Mr. Hekki change the channel.
I LOVED all those smart nice kids.
And being good in school doesn't mean success in real life.
Shavya you rawk WTG!!! and Olathe(5 mins from me) has THE smartest people in the world! :)
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Congrats Kavya.
Her mother is very beautiful by the way.
I remember the joy I had when I won my school's Geography Bee. Two hrs. later, I had a bloody nose and my glasses were pulled off my face and smashed repeatedly. Gotta love Middle School!
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@sarcastic - i remember being doing a spelling bee in 3rd grade & missing on the word capital or was it capitol???? al or ol? i'm still pissed about that too cause there were only 3 of us left. oh the horror & embarrassment of it all.
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Ahh, spelling bee memories. I remember winning my class spelling bee in the 6th grade with the word kingfisher. And then I fucking lost in the second round because my lazy ass forgot to study! I'm still pissed about that.
Y'know, posts like this spelling bee one are why I love reading this blog. MK doesn't have his head so far up celebrity ass that he can comment on regular folk and give 'em a thumbs up. Congrats to that little girl - am very impressed.
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Submitted by Hysteria on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:37am.
I just remember it from when I was a good girl and went to church. :)
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Umm, I think that should be "greatest speller what ever spelled"?
I dint like the MC pushing the mom aside on one of the happiest moments of the parents' lives. She couldn't give them two minutes to hold their kid? It was more compelling vid than her yappy face.
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Chris,
I know, I have read about what it's like over there. I knew even during my teen angst days that as nuts as my parents got, it was nothing compared to even some of the other kids in my school, let alone in Asia. My mom is from eastern Europe and that's where her craziness over my schooling came from. I totally wrecked my parents though, I went from all A's to all but dropping out in a few years. Now my mom doesn't ever bitch at my little brother about school, and he's doing great.
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Submitted by Chris Eccleston... on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:30am.
you're smarter than i am. never ever heard of those words
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edit: i did win third place in our state current events contest (6th grade). i won a clock radio and $25. woooooo!
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Way to go Kavya!
Smart girls rock!!!
@madam s. -- Oh, so sorry for that sad memory. Those rotten, mean teachers! I would've come and hid with you. In the long run you have prevailed!
@Stoney -- I'm going to focus on your great accomplishments. Holy cow! Sixth grade winner! A set of dictionaries would've been totally cool prizes, even now! Grrrrl word power!
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Submitted by Sensimina on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:29am.
Imagine how many times worse it is for kids over here. I could tell you horror stories. It's not education; it's child abuse.
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Submitted by Hysteria on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:25am.
man, those words were haaard.
they would announce a word, and i'm like WTF? that's gotta be a madeup word.
spellingbees have gotten much harder
True. Except when I was actually kind of surprised that "laodicean" was the winning word. It's such an easy word.
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The kid that cried over the test actually was Korean, but most were from different parts of Asia. I knew a white kid with parents like that, too, and my parents would also go fucking psycho on me about schoolwork and grades. My parents, in fact, were so obsessively fixated on my career at school and my grades, that I stopped caring about myself at all and actively rebelled. I figured that if the only thing my parents were interested in about me was my performance in school, I would take that all away from them and they would have to pay attention to the other aspects of my life. To this day I have a serious complex about school.
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Submitted by Sensimina on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:19am.
now that is ridiculous. kids need to learn how to work it to their advantage. you go for A-'s because then everyone knows your smart but it's not too much pressure and you can fuck around a little bit while still getting good grades. that's what i did. just enough so people know you're smart, but not so much that they expect 105% from you.
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man, those words were haaard.
they would announce a word, and i'm like WTF? that's gotta be a madeup word.
spellingbees have gotten much harder
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My daughter has a friend like that. If she isn't BETTER than the BEST she can be, they hit her. I won't say where they are from, but, they are not from around here. People have tried to speak to the parents but it is to no avail. Thankfully she has older siblings who come to her defense. It seems to be more important to be the best above all things, than to be average. The kid is a genius and in all AP classes, so why not cut her some slack.
Submitted by Happy Hour on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:20am.
Yeah, she's the first kid from Korea to be in the Bee. Next year is her last year. She's really sweet and her English is just shy of being fluent. Amazing for somebody that never lived outside of Korea.
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The best part of the Spelling bee was when one kid got "Faukeltanz"..the commentator says "That would be a good word to use in traffic"....I laughed my ass off..and have been using it instead of fuck all day...pure HILARITY! Especially when you say "Faukeltanzing Mother Faukel"!
Submitted by Raul Duke on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:17am.
Yeah no shit she won, she probably got bounced right to the Finals for just spelling her last name!
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Submitted by Sensimina on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:19am.
Were they Korean?
High school life for kids in Korea: school from 8am - 10pm 5/6 days a week. Then they have after school classes until midnight or 1. Then they have to study at home. Then if they're lucky they get about 4 or 5 hours sleep.
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Ahh, spelling bee memories. I remember winning my class spelling bee in the 6th grade with the word kingfisher. And then I fucking lost in the second round because my lazy ass forgot to study! I'm still pissed about that.
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Submitted by Chris Eccleston... on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:15am.
One of my students was a contestant, but she was cut in the 3rd round.
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Good Job! not a lot of teachers can say that.
I feel for these kids because they remind me of friends I had in school whose parents never let them out of the house for anything other than academics. They would spend their whole lives getting yelled at by their parents and forced to do ridiculous amounts of schoolwork. I remember a 15 year old kid crying because they got a 103% on a German 3 test because their parents were going to beat them for not getting 5/5 BONUS questions.
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Submitted by EvilShoe on Sun, 05/24/2009
Well, if she is perfectly still she can claim she is not sexually active.