An Unflappable Sixth-Grader Has Won the National Spelling Bee
Jun 02, 2017, 11:59 AM
(OXON HILL, Md.) — Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The 12-year-old from Fresno, California, showed little emotion and didn't take much time as she plowed through word after word. Sometimes she would blurt out questions, with little intonation — "Part of speech?" ''Language of origin?" — and sometimes she didn't even bother.