79th National Spelling Bee

Ursprache – that was the word that won Katherine Close the Scripps Spelling Bee competition in the US.

She and Finola Hacket battled it out over 19 rounds of obscure words that included Weltschmerz, Kundalini (yes, you are right, it’s the Indian yoga form), Psittacism, Tmesis, Koine, Aubade, etc.

Personally I think the kid Finola didn’t have luck on her side as the word she couldn’t spell was Weltschmerz. Ironically, the word deals with mental depression!

Now, you know what I watch on television! This must be the first time in sometime that I actually got to watching anything on TV for almost half an hour and that too on ESPN