... as boy, 14, and girl, 13, spell tongue twisters 'scherenschnitte' and 'nunatak' with ease.
??? There are three e's in "scherenschnitte" but none in "nunatak".
Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Missouri and Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Kansas tied as winners of the national spelling bee on Thursday
I assume that those kids got plenty of spelling practice learning to write their own names correctly. Having mastered that, everything else was a doddle.
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