{"id":393871,"date":"2017-06-02T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ananya-vinay-12-wins-us-spelling-bee-with-marocain\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:19:16","slug":"ananya-vinay-12-wins-us-spelling-bee-with-marocain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ananya-vinay-12-wins-us-spelling-bee-with-marocain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ananya Vinay, 12, wins US spelling bee with \u2018marocain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ananya-Vinay-spelling-bee.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain \u2013 a type of dress fabric \u2013 to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The rivals had correctly spelled words including cheiropompholyx, durchkomponiert and tchefuncte as each waited for the other to slip up.<\/p>\n<p>But Rohan misspelled the word marram and Ananya got two words right to win.<\/p>\n<p>She said she felt \u201camazing\u201d after her victory, adding: \u201cIt was just fun to see how far it would go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>Could you have spelled these?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the words Ananya and Rohan grappled with during their 45-minute spell-off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marocain<\/strong> \u2013 a heavy crepe fabric whose name is derived from the French word for Moroccan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marram<\/strong> \u2013 a Scandinavian-derived word for a type of beach grass<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheiropompholyx<\/strong> \u2013 a type of eczema affecting the skin of the hands and feet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Durchkomponiert<\/strong> \u2013 a German-origin word used to describe a song that is not based on repeated sections<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tchefuncte<\/strong> \u2013 relating to a Native American tribe that lived in Louisiana from 600 BC to 200 AD<\/p>\n<p>Her father Vinay Sreekumar said she had a \u201cdeep passion for reading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya \u2013 the thirteenth Indian-American in a row to win the spelling bee \u2013 said she planned to split the $40,000 prize money with her seven-year-old brother and put her share in an account for her college education.<\/p>\n<p>More than 11 million youngsters aged between six and 15 from all 50 US states, US territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam and countries such as Japan and Jamaica had entered the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest-ever competitor, Edith Fuller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who turned 6 in April, was eliminated from the competition last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington. Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain \u2013 a type of dress fabric \u2013 to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma. The rivals had correctly spelled words including cheiropompholyx, durchkomponiert and tchefuncte as each waited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ananya Vinay, 12, wins US spelling bee with \u2018marocain\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ananya-vinay-12-wins-us-spelling-bee-with-marocain\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ananya Vinay, 12, wins US spelling bee with \u2018marocain\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington. 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