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Sukanya Roy wins America's coveted spelling bee crown
Washington: Spelling tongue twister 'cymotrichous', Greek for having wavy hair, Indian American Sukanya Roy has won the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee crown to retain the coveted honour for the community for the fourth year in a row. Roy, 14, an eighth-grader at Abington Heights Middle School, Pennsylvania, said she knew as soon as she heard 'cymotrichous' that she'd get the word right and win