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What Is One Rule That the Spelling Bee Champions Applied

at 42:47

From the episode: Language Rules!

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For Shruthika Padhy, she states that there are some very phonetic languages— Spanish, for example— so she would spell out a word phonetically. She studied the vowel schemes of languages and it helped her figure out the words she didn't already know.

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