One of the most difficult yet important tasks of school life is to learn the word-spellings and some of us are still not sure about a number of spellings even after getting a college degree. However, this is not a problem for Edith Fuller, as this 5-yr old girl from Oklahama has made history by becoming the youngest candidate ever to qualify for Scripps National Spelling Bee. The final word that Edith was asked to spell was a Sanskrit word “jnana”, which means knowledge.
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For qualifying the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Edith won a regional bee which was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she defeated more than 50 older participants in a contest which lasted for around 5 hours.
Edith has been home-schooled and some other difficult words that she has spelled correctly for qualifying to the national bee, which will held in Washington D.C, were – Nisei (a child of Japanese immigrants who is born in the U.S.), alim (a Muslim scholar), sevruga (a type of caviar), virgule (an accent mark) and jacamar (a long-billed bird).
The national bee will take place in May and this will be its 90th contest. Generally, the winners of this American contest are from Indian origin, especially from the last 10 years.
Edith said this with a smile after winning the regional bee, “I’m going to D.C.!” Even more amazingly, she has already been called “spellebrity”.
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Edith’s mother Annie Fuller told Tulsa World Newspaper that they were surprised when last summer, she spelled “restaurant” correctly. She further said, “It’s fun to share her with everyone. I knew she’d be a novelty, so I’m proud she held her own.”
There is no minimum age criterion for the National Spelling Bee but the participant should not have passed the eighth standard.
We wish Edith Good Luck for the National Spelling Bee!