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Transcript: Spelling Bee Contestant Recalls Experience
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- NPR All Things Considered
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- May 29, 2009
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
05-29-2009
Spelling Bee Contestant Recalls Experience
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM
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MELISSA BLOCK, host:
Last night, Laodicean was the winning word at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship for 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas. But many of those watching the broadcast may have had their hearts captured by another 13- year-old, the ebullient Kennyi Aouad from Terre Haute, Indiana.
Unidentified Man #1: Gyascutus.
Mr. KENNYI AOUAD: Gyascutus. May I have the origin, please?
Unidentified Man #1: It's unknown.
Mr. AOUAD: Eh, all right.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. AOUAD: May I have it used in sentence, please?
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