12-year-old wins $50,000 US spelling bee prize

Mastering words such as “cricetine” and “indumentum”, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched victory Thursday in the United States spelling bee. The seventh-grade student from St. Petersburg, Florida, beamed as colorful confetti rained down after he won the tiebreaker. “Bruhat Soma from Florida cemented his win by correctly spelling his final word, ‘abseil’,” organizer Scripps National Spelling

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