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The winning word, the word that he was able to spell,
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was "Echolalia."
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Does anyone know what echolalia is? What?
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Some type of flower?
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It's not some type of flower. No.
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It means the tendency to repeat as in echo, to repeat what you've heard.
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Anyhow, he misspelled it actually
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but the judges misheard him,
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they thought he had spelled it correctly
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and awarded him the championship of the National Spelling Bee
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and he went to the judges afterward and said,
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"Actually, I misspelled it, I don't deserve the prize."