- 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee
Image Georges W Bush with Sameer Mishra.jpg thumb 250px George W. Bush with the 2008 Champion Sameer Mishra in the Oval Office, August 13, 2008. The 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee took place on May 30, 2008. Competition Two hundred eighty eight champion spellers competed in the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. , the most ever to date. Most of the spellers were from the United States , with a small showing from other locations such as Ghana , Jamaica , and South Korea . Twenty two were Canada Canadian . Champion The winner was Sameer Mishra , a 13 year old eighth grader at West Lafayette Junior Senior High School , in Indiana. He was sponsored by his hometown newspaper, the Journal & Courier . His winning word was wiktionary guerdon guerdon . He won 35,000 in cash and more than 5,000 in prizes. ref cite web title Indiana boy spells guerdon to win national bee author Joseph White url http news.yahoo.com s ap 20080531 ap on re us spelling bee date 2008 05 31 accessdate 2008 05 31 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080603005853 http news.yahoo.com s ap 20080531 ap on re us spelling bee Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 06 03 ref In rounds 3 through 15, Mishra spelled demitasse , quadrat , diener , hyssop , mac doine , basenji , numnah , chorion , nacarat , sinicize , hyphaeresis , taleggio and esclandre correctly, in that order. In a comical moment during the spelling bee, he mistook the word numnah for numb nut . Mishra incorrectly spelled sudation in Round 2 as sudatian. ref cite web title Scripps National Spelling Bee Sameer Mishra url http public.spellingbee.com public results round results speller 97 date 2008 05 31 accessdate 2008 05 31 ref However, because a speller s combined score from Rounds 1 and 2 determines whether he or she advances in the competition, a speller can incorrectly spell a word in Round 2 without being eliminated. TV coverage As with previous years, coverage was divided amongst American Broadcasting Company pr ... more details
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