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[ad_1] Dev Shah said the fact that he has won the 2023 Spelling Bee is still sinking in.New Delhi: "Seeing other kids win the Spelling Bee probably inspired me the most because I said if they could do it, I could do it," was the confident response of Dev Shah, the Indian-American 14-year-old who won the prestigious 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on June 1, when asked what prompted him to get into the world of spelling.In an interview with NDTV yesterday, the eighth grader said he expected to spell the winning eleven-letter word 'psammophile' correctly because it was a word he had studied before. Merriam-Webster defines 'psammophile' as an organism that thrives in sandy areas."I developed an interest (in the Spelling Bee) starting sixth grade because that's when I really started serio...

[ad_1] New Delhi: Indian-origin Dev Shah from Florida has been named the winner of the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US. The teenager spelt the final word “psammophile” and took home the prize money of $50,000. Dev Shah went through a total of 15 rounds and spelt each word correctly to win the competition. Psammophile is an organism which thrives in sandy soils and areas.In the first round, 14-year-old Dev spelt the word “ardoise”, which is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a grayish purple that is stronger than telegraph blue, bluer and deeper than mauve gray, and bluer and paler than average rose mauve”. Dev, in the second round, was asked the meaning of grotesqueness which he described as “comically out of place or absurd”. Following this, Dev gave the correct spelling of “co...

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