KNOWING HOW TO spell ‘knaidel’ was the clincher that won Arvind Mahankali the 2013 national spelling championships in the US.
(It’s a kind of dumpling, in case you’re wondering.)
Here’s the moment the 13-year-old nailed it. And stayed totally cool while everyone else lost it.
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Arvind will now take home $30,000 worth of cash and prizes, along with what NBC called “a large cup-shaped trophy”.
Among the words he had to spell were ‘dehnstufe’, ‘glossophagine’, ‘crapaud’ and ‘trichocercous’.
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