Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde from US' Louisiana became the first African-American to win the 96-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee. Indian-Americans, who have been dominating the National Spelling Bee for years, secured the second and third positions. Zaila Avant-garde was asked to spell the words alpargata, elevenses, tubifex, querimonious, velarium, solidungulate, rolamite, ancistroid, duchesse and depreter. After tying for 370th place in 2019, #Speller133 Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee. #SpellingBee #TheBeeIsBack," Scripps National Spelling Bee tweeted after the competition, which was not held last year due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: dna July 09, 2021 09:33 UTC