Scripp's National Spelling Bee

In case you missed the recent Scripps National Spelling Bee, there were duo winners for the second straight year. 13-year-old Vanya Shivashankar from Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, correctly spelled the final word presented to her as did 14-year-old Gokul Vankatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Why two winners again? Well, basically because they ran out of words t

A 13-year-old New York boy captured the Scripps National Spelling Bee title when he conquered "the German curse" on his way to spelling's top prize. Arvind Mahankali has never had a "knaidel," but he was able to spell the German-derived Yiddish word for a matzo ball Thursday night to earn the huge trophy and more than $30,000 in cash and prizes.

Ever since I began blogging I have been worried about my ability to spell everything correctly even with spell check. Now that I have been doing the "Blog-Thing" I have become more and more confident that I could never be a part of the Scripp's National Spelling Bee