Best of 2021: How the Spelling Bee became a national American sport
Inside America's most famous competition
In The News · [email protected]
December 27, 202121m 8s
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Show Notes
It’s a quintessentially American institution, where kids battle it out to correctly spell ten-dollar words like 'querimonious' and 'solidungulate'. This year, the long dominance of Indian-American competitors was broken by the first ever black American winner, 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde. Documentary filmmaker Sam Rega tells us the story of the National Spelling Bee.
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