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Hairy Word Ends This Year’s National Spelling Bee

Hairy Word Ends This Year's National Spelling BeeThe Scripps National Spelling Bee ran late tonight when the last five contestants spelled 21 consecutive words without a miss. Finally, each botched a word, leaving only 14-year-old Sukanya Roy of South Abington Township, Pennsylvania. Roy took home $40,000 in cash and prizes after correctly spelling cymotrichous, which means having wavy hair. "I went through the dictionary once or twice," she said, "and I guess some of the words really stuck."

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