SocietyOne vowel can separate victory from defeat for spelling bee finalists

Thirty-four primary school students reached the New South Wales Premier’s Spelling Bee finals in Sydney after about 200,000 competed statewide. Afeef Ahmed won, while Maximilian Lumley secured the runner-up spot by correctly spelling “apocalypse” after Alesha Kahfandi misspelled her word.

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