2007 Scripps National: Evan O’Dorney Wins
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All these competitors are amazing. It is such a feat to reach this level. The words are sometimes so obscure. And Evan O’Dorney won:
“Thirteen-year-old Evan O’Dorney of Danville, California, breezed through the Scripps National Spelling Bee with barely a hitch Thursday night, taking the title, the trophy and the prizes in a competition that he confessed really wasn’t his favorite.
The home-schooled eighth-grader easily aced “serrefine” — a noun describing small forceps — to become the last youngster standing at the 80th annual bee…”
Link: Californian wins spelling bee with ’serrefine’
Link: Scripps National Spelling Bee
Evan was brillant briliant great. Congratulations, Evan!
Catherine Forsythe
*** Sports Illustrated ran Evan’s story on the front of its Web site: S-E-R-R-E-F-I-N-E spells victory - now how cool is that!?
Tags: scripps national spelling bee, winner, evan o’dorney, competition, sports illustrated
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marc klink
June 1st, 2007
at 2:19am
The interesting thing is I just saw this on Nightline, and the reporter could not pronounce the word correctly. I checked, as it did not seem correct as I was fairly sure it stems from French, and the reporter pronounced it sure-fine. It seems that too much reliance on the spell check happens today, as for pronunciation guides, well, who knows.