CNN - Excited Brooklyn girl wins National Spelling Bee with 'euonym' - May 29, 1997 Excited Brooklyn girl wins National Spelling Bee with 'euonym'

May 29, 1997
Web posted at: 6:23 p.m. EDT (2223 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A giddy and relieved Rebecca Sealfon carefully shouted each letter of the word "euonym" to win the 70th National Spelling Bee on Thursday.

check the quicktime video.

and i deserve to go to the special section of hell reserved for priests and R. Kelly, but Rebecca's 18 now, and probably spelling different things.

maybe she's a child prodigy gone bad like one of the Tenenbaums. which, incidentally, i can never spell correctly.

Google had this to say to me after looking for the Royal Tennebaums:
Did you mean to search for: Royal Tenenbaums