Spelling bee controversy: Did the National Spelling Bee misspell winning word?, The spelling bee controversy over Thursday’s winning word “knaidel” is heating up. Experts say America's National Spelling Bee organization misspelled the word and that it should be spelled "kneydl."
“Arvind Mahankali, 13, successfully spelled the word ‘knaidel’, which refers to a small mass of leavened dough, to win the high-profile televised contest last Thursday,” reported The Telegraph on June 2, 2013.
However, linguists at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, who are regarded to be the experts in regard to the spelling of Yiddish words are saying America’s National Spelling Bee organization doesn’t know how to spell.
The word should have been spelled “kneydl.”
But what do linguists know. Gloria Birnbaum, who is 83 years old and has been around Yiddish longer than most of those linguists have lived, knows that both “knaidel” and “kneydl” are wrong.
The word should have been spelled “knadel.”
In addition to linguists and the elderly, pronunciation experts are chiming into the spelling bee controversy.
The New York Times reports that “Aaron Goldman, a former accountant and sales manager in a blue baseball cap, jumped to his feet and banged on the table as plastic ware bounced.”
“That would be ‘knawdle,’ not knaidle!” said Aaron Goldman.
And Aaron Goldman has a point. Since “knadel,” “knaidel,” or “kneydl” is pronounced like Middle High German, all of them are wrong.
The word should have been spelled “knödel.”
In response to the heated spelling bee controversy, America's National Spelling Bee is saying that the competition is using Webster's Third New International Dictionary as the authority on how to spell.
It appears with all the spelling bee controversy happening, the winner of Thursday’s National Spelling Bee, 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali from New York, knows just what to do – retire.
After having finished third the last two years running and having won the spelling bee competition this year, he is turning to physics.
He might say, if I have to deal with “a tempest in a soup bowl,” I rather do it with physics than with spelling. And how about trying to spell my name?
Arvind Mahankali -- or should that be spelled differently also?
Monday, June 3, 2013
Spelling bee controversy: Did the National Spelling Bee misspell winning word?
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