690 - The Spelling Bee Kids

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The author of "Beeline" reveals where those funny example sentences come from in the spelling bee and what the success of young spellers can tell us about Generation Z. LINKS AND SPONSORS | Grammar Girl Email Newsletter: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/newsletters | Graduation Sweepstakes: http://bit.ly/qdtlifeaftercollege | Grammar Girl's AP style webinar: http://bit.ly/GrammarWebinar2019 | GRAMMAR POP iOS GAME | Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/iPadGrammarPop | For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopMobile | GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS | http://bit.ly/GrammarPopBooks | GRAMMAR GIRL IS PART OF THE QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS PODCAST NETWORK | VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL

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0:00.0	I'm a young folk who is in the
0:07.0	honor of B Week.
0:08.0	I have an interview with
0:10.0	Shalani Shankar, a professor of
0:11.0	anthropology and Asian
0:12.0	American studies at Northwestern
0:14.0	University.
0:15.0	And the author of B-Line, a new
0:17.0	book about kids who participate
0:19.0	in the script's national
0:20.0	spelling bee.
0:23.0	Hi, Shalani.
0:24.0	Thanks for being here with me
0:25.0	today.
0:26.0	Thank you so much for inviting me
0:28.0	to be on your amazing podcast.
0:31.0	Well, when I heard about your book,
0:33.0	B-Line about kids in the spelling bee,
0:35.0	I knew I had to talk to you.
0:36.0	That just sounds amazing.
0:38.0	So tell me how you got the idea to
0:41.0	write this interesting book.
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