{"id":327797,"date":"2023-06-02T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/us-spelling-bee-indian-origin-boy-wins-after-spelling-this-11-letter-word\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:56:00","slug":"us-spelling-bee-indian-origin-boy-wins-after-spelling-this-11-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/us-spelling-bee-indian-origin-boy-wins-after-spelling-this-11-letter-word\/","title":{"rendered":"US Spelling Bee: Indian-Origin Boy Wins After Spelling This 11-Letter Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dev Shah’s winning word was ‘Psammophile’.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Indian-origin Dev Shah won the latest edition of the US’ prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee contest last night, taking away a $50,000 cash prize by correctly spelling the word “psammophile”.<\/p>\n

He is also the 22nd champion of the Spelling Bee with a South Asian heritage in the last 24 years.<\/p>\n

“It’s surreal. My legs are still shaking,” CNN cited the 14-year-old Florida boy as saying after his victory at the contest in the US state of Maryland.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Walsh from Virginia finished second.<\/p>\n

Dev’s winning word was ‘Psammophile’, defined by Merriam-Webster as an organism that thrives in sandy areas.<\/p>\n

He was one of the 11 finalists from among the 11 million who entered the spelling contest from across the world.<\/p>\n

For years, Indian-Americans have been dominating the National Spelling Bee which was started in 1925 and is open to students till the eighth grade.<\/p>\n

Harini Logan, an eighth-grader from Texas, won it last year by beating another Indian-American Vikram Raju.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[ad_1] Dev Shah’s winning word was ‘Psammophile’. Indian-origin Dev Shah won the latest edition of the US’ prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee contest last night, taking away a $50,000 cash prize by correctly spelling the word “psammophile”. He is also the 22nd champion of the Spelling Bee with a South Asian heritage in the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[377052,395212,395213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}