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Jersey Girl Triumphs Over Canadian Menace

katharine%20close%20and%20ken%20lowe%20spelling%20bee%20scripss.jpg We did catch the Scripps National Spelling Bee last night, televised from its location across town in the belly of the Grand Hyatt. Katharine Close, an eighth-grader from Spring Lake, New Jersey, vanquished Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, from Alberta, Canada. After Hackett got tripped up by Weltschmerz, Close correctly spelled Ursprache for the title. How d’ya like dem apples — eh?

For the spelling bee aficionados among you, a few more comments appear after the jump.

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