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There are a record number of contestants this year, and thousands of people tune in to watch the bee on ESPN. Why do you think it remains so popular...
...yeah, I always have. I always want them to get all the words right. I think that's a lot of the fun of the spelling bee - you root for everybody. And I try to make it clear to the spellers that I'm there to give them absolutely every possible thing that I can to help them - within some limits...
...actually played yourself in another Hollywood movie about the contest, Akeelah and the Bee...
...pretty systematic. So if you get a word like "humuhumunukunukuapuaa," you can spell it, even though nobody else can. It's the same way with German words. To us, they sound pretty hard, but to a German, words are spelled like they sound. There couldn't be a spelling bee in German, or Japanese, or French, or any other language...
...words from everywhere. So you get words from the Iroquois languages, Sanskrit, Arabic, Javanese and Hindi. Most other languages don't tend to do that. Because English has taken words from all different languages, it has a whole bunch of competing spelling rules and systems, which makes the spelling bee more challenging...