You only need to watch this video until about the 2:20 mark:
A) OF COURSE THIS GIRL WON FOUR YEARS IN A ROW....if YOU could spell her last name, YOU would win four years in a row too! I mean, Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan? Jesus!
B) This is clearly fixed. The first kid gets a difficult word ("dubiety") pronounced by that official who clearly has a cleft palate, and the next kid gets a ridiculously easy word! Even WordGnome readers can spell Geronimo! I swear these things are fixed!
On a less mean, and more lettered note, here is a lovely poem by Robert Browning titled "Dubiety":
Only help me, Autumn weather,
Me and my cares to screen, ensconce
In luxury’s sofa-lap of leather!
Sleep? Nay, comfort—with just a cloud
Suffusing day too clear and bright:
Eve’s essence, the single drop allowed
To sully, like milk, Noon’s water-white.
Let gauziness shade, not shroud,—adjust,
Dim and not deaden,—somehow sheathe
Aught sharp in the rough world’s busy thrust,
If it reach me through dreaming’s vapor-wreath.
Be life so, all things ever the same!
For, what has disarmed the world? Outside,
Quiet and peace: inside, nor blame
Nor want, nor wish whate’er betide.
What is it like that has happened before?
A dream? No dream, more real by much.
A vision? But fanciful days of yore
Brought many: mere musing seems not such.
Perhaps but a memory, after all!
—Of what came once when a woman leant
To feel for my brow where her kiss might fall.
Truth ever, truth only the excellent!
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