Bizantinismo...B-i-z-a-n-t-i-n-i-s-m-o...Bizantinismo! That was the word that won it all for Evelyn Juárez, a seventh grade girl from Santa Cruz N.M. who won the first national Spanish spelling bee ...
Melody Hinkle was on stage waiting for the final word to be presented during a 24-round spelling bee where she faced off against 34 other contestants. The word was tácito, a word she knew immediately, ...