Washington Post:
With a white bow in her fine blond hair, Edith Fuller, 5, walked up to the microphone, letting out a deep breath before receiving her 37th word. After more than four hours of competing against children almost three times her age, she had advanced to the final round at the Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee in Tulsa.
“Juh-nah-nuh,” emphasis on the second syllable, was the pronunciation of the word the announcer gave her.
“Juh-nah-nuh,” she replied. “Will you please give me the language of origin?” Edith asked, with the quiet but confident voice of someone far beyond her years.
This might be the cutest thing you watch all weekend. She is a remarkably calm and self-assured young lady. And her skills are incredible. I’m a really good speller and yet, I couldn’t have spelled most of those words.
Amazing.
Two things strike me:
Finding out the country of origin is not only an important technique for spelling bee participants, it’s a useful technique for anyone who writes and struggles with spelling.
I wonder what her practice regimen is like and what her life looks like outside of it.
And she’s smarter than anyone else in DC.
I think this is fairly sad really – what life does she have? Does she spend all her time being coached and have no time to have fun ?
Essentially similar to memorizing an entire encyclopedia of locomotives or the contents of the _
Monstrous American Car Spotter’s Guide_, which is a typical thing for an obsessed 5 or 6 year old to do.
She probably knows where to put commas, too.
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