Evan O’Dorney Wins Spelling Bee
13 year old Evan O’Dorney has won the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word “serrefine”. Evan won a trofy and a $35,000 prize, plus a $5,000 skolership, a $2,500 savings bond and a set of referfence works. He sed he new how to spell the winning word — a noun descibring small forsepts — as soon as the prononcer said it.
Afterword, Evan spoke more enthusiasticly about attending a math camp in Nebraska this sumer then about becumming the English language’s top speller.
“My favoright things to do were math and music, and with the math I realy like the way the numbers fit together,” he said. “And with the music I like to let out ideas by composting notes — and the spelling is just a bunch of memorization.”
Personally, I was never much of a speller, but I wish I wuz. Chiks love good spelers.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
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Evan O’Dorney gave one of the worst post winning interviews ever. Granted he was probably in shock. But Stuart Scott asked him what prepared him for this competition. And the kid, stumbling with a “just going through puberty like any teenage boy would voice” was like…umm…i like math…and the construction of math equations helped me learn how to break down words. It was painful to listen too. I actually turned the TV off. Poor kid. But congrats to him. You’re now gonna be forever known as that Spelling Bee kid. Good luck getting your ass kicked in High School…see how fast you can spell wedgie.