{"id":43024,"date":"2019-05-31T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=43024"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:01:21","slug":"spelling-bee-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=43024","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Bee 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'll let this incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPN_Inc.\">ESPN<\/a> (it's a sport, after all) video speak for itself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spelling Bee ends in an unprecedented 8-way tie | 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxqoVbvTUX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eyes full of tears.<\/p>\n<p>No other comment necessary.<\/p>\n<p><b>Featured video<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zxqoVbvTUX8\">Spelling Bee ends in an unprecedented 8-way tie | 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee<\/a>\" (5\/31\/19)<\/p>\n<p><b>Readings<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/31\/us\/national-spelling-bee-champions.html\">National Spelling Bee, at a Loss for Words, Crowns 8 Co-Champions<\/a>\", by Daniel Victor, NYT (5\/31\/19)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/29\/153898668\/why-indian-americans-reign-as-spelling-bee-champs\">Why Indian-Americans Reign As Spelling Bee Champs<\/a>\" (NPR, 5\/29\/12)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2013-08\/why-chinese-kids-are-terrible-spelling-bees\">Why Chinese Kids Are Terrible At Spelling Bees: Globalization brings texting and spelling bees to China, with unfortunate results<\/a>\u201d (Popular Science, 8\/13\/13)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The worldly sport of spelling\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=38564\" rel=\"bookmark\">The worldly sport of spelling<\/a>\" (6\/2\/18)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=12700\">Spelling bee champs<\/a>\u201d (6\/1\/14)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=5669\">Spelling bees and character amnesia<\/a>\u201d (8\/7\/13)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=7142\">Character amnesia and the emergence of digraphia<\/a>\u201d (9\/25\/13)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Character amnesia and kanji attachment\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=24220\" rel=\"bookmark\">Character amnesia and kanji attachment<\/a>\" (2\/24\/16)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=5838\">Of toads, modernization, and simplified characters<\/a>\u201d (8\/16\/13)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Sneeze, hiccup, cough\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9182\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sneeze, hiccup, cough<\/a>\" (12\/19\/13)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=20542\">Brain imaging and spelling champions<\/a>\u201d (8\/7\/15)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=20144\">Il ne parle pas fran\u00e7ais<\/a>\u201d (7\/23\/15)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=23412\">Spoken Sanskrit<\/a>\u201d (1\/9\/16)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25941\">Once more on the mystery of the national spelling bee<\/a>\" (5\/27\/16)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=26701\">Spelling bees in the 1940s<\/a>\" (7\/10\/16)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=33061\">Yet again on the mystery of the national spelling bee<\/a>\" (6\/5\/17)<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Lexical limits\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=22655\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lexical limits<\/a>\" (12\/5\/15)<\/p>\n<p>[h.t. H. Krishnapriyan]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'll let this incredible ESPN (it's a sport, after all) video speak for itself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-spelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43033,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions\/43033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}