Kavya, the 13-year-old girl from Kansas, has won this year’s Spelling Bee Championship. Her winning spelling word is “Laodicean”, meaning “indifferent or lukewarm especially in matters of religion”.
Spelling competition has been around for a while. Winning it has become a sort of religion for many aspiring students (and their parents). Remembering tons of obscured words helps, but probably isn’t critical to, mastering a language.
Should we be laodicean to the zest of spelling bee then? The large picture is, as Kavya well put it, that you have to really want to do it and that it takes really hard work to do it well.
Sounds like a sound advice for those who want to learn a new language.
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