Shimabukuro called Scripps and asked if a library could sponsor a competition. Though no library had ever done so before, Scripps gave her the go-ahead. The Baltimore Sun agreed to fund the bee, and the details of the competition were spelled out.
Events like this are important, Shimabukuro said, because “spelling is becoming a lost art. A lot of kids and adults depend on spell check and it’s not the answer. You can't always have spell check available.”
And in this climate of increasing written communication -- even the SAT now features a writing segment – “It’s very important to know how to write,” she said. “Even if you are bright, if your spelling is off, people still perceive that as a flaw. You put your best foot forward when you spell correctly.”
After (Sydney) Speizman was reinstated in the competition, she put her best foot forward, ticking off “metronome” and “xylograph” to waltz through Rounds 4 and 5 until she came head-to-head against Priyanka Chavan, a fifth-grader from Fulton Elementary School whose gateway to the final round was “amalgam.”
The two duked it out for the championship, gliding through words like “cationic” and “gibbet” and tripping over “vermin,” “acolyte,” and, most contentious, “tilde.”...
Speizman stumbled on “garderobe.” Chavan ticked off the word’s correct nine letters and was then asked to spell “piebald” to win the bee.
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