72nd Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 72nd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. in 1999, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company. 14-year-old Nupur Lala, from Tampa, Florida won the competition by correctly spelling the word "logorrhea".^[1] Notably, the 1999 bee was covered by the Jeffrey Blitz documentary Spellbound. ^[2]

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