Thurteen Yeer Olt Wynns Nashional Speling Be

WASHINGTON, DC - Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Sameer Mishra, a 13-yeer-olt frum West Lafayette, IN one tha Scripps Nashional Speling Be buy currectly speling tha wurd "guerdon" Fryday knite. 

Sameer,  licks plaing tha violyn and videoh gaims, aned hops won dae two bee ah nurosirjion.

Itz tha forth thyme Sameer appeerd inn tha be. Hez bin ah topp twendy finnisher tha lassed too yeres. Hee one ah tenze dooel offer furst-thyme partissipent Sidharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, MI woo finelly stumbeled un "prosopopoeia," ah wurd disgribing ah tipe ov figyur ov speche.

Sameer whill reseave $35,000 inn cache pluss moer then $5,000 inn otter pryzes.

Thyss yeer's waz tha ayedeefurst addition ov tha be, helt inn tha nashion's capitle.