The Buzzing Bees that doesn’t Sting.

It is hearting to see the PIO’s ( Person from Indian Origin) and NRI’s to prosper in a big way. We feel proud with their success stories even they prefer to distance themselves from us like Venkataraman Ramakrishnan. For your kind information that Venkataraman Ramakrishnan an Indo-American has shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with a co-American Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel for mapping ribosomes, the protein procuring factories within cells at the atomic level. He was immensely irritated by the accolades generated from India and mostly from his native state. We are equally proud for Sunita Williams and she generously acknowledge it, that divide between best and better.  However, that is another story but when we get up to find the young faces flashed over the television from Indian origin we may be still shameless to rejoice it selflessly and feel proud. So, congrats to Arvind Mahakali for winning Scrips Spelling Bee.

The Scrips Spelling Bee

Nine newspapers collaborated to start the National Spelling Bee in 1925. In 1941, Scripps took over sponsorship of the National Spelling Bee. There was no Scripps National Spelling Bee during the war years of 1943–45.

The word bee, as used in spelling bee, is one of those language puzzles that has never been satisfactorily accounted for. A fairly old and widely-used word, it refers to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors join together in a single activity

The program experienced steady growth between the between 1980 and 1990 the number of participants doubled. In recent years the program underwent a second growth spurt and a significant surge in popularity  thanks to live coverage on ESPN.

The first winner of an official spelling bee was Frank Neuhauser, who won the 1st National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in 1925 at age eleven.

Controversy

Arvind Mahankali, successfully spelled the word "knaidel", which refers to a small mass of leavened dough, to win the high-profile contest. But linguists at the New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research have told the New York Times that the preferred historical spelling of the word is "kneydl."

Eleven of the last fifteen winners including the last six years have been Indian Americans, reflecting the recent dominance of students of this community in this competition. Indian Americans make up less than one percent of the U.S. population.

Year	Name	Winning Word
1985	Balu Natarajan	milieu
1988	Rageshree Ramachandran	elegiacal
1999	Nupur Lala[G]	logorrhea
2002	Pratyush Buddiga	prospicience
2003	Sai Gunturi	pococurante
2005	Anurag Kashyap	appoggiatura
2008	Sameer Mishra	guerdon
2009	Kavya Shivashankar	Laodicean
2010	Anamika Veeramani	stromuhr
2011	Sukanya Roy	cymotrichous
2012	Snigdha Nandipati	guetapens
2013	Arvind Mahankali	knaidel

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