This is the picture of a child named Edith Fuller who spelled 37 words correctly at age 5, in 2017 to win the Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee to be the youngest person in history to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington DC. The words she spelled correctly are: Dracula, Layette, Odori, Colloquial, Sevruga, Staccato, Panglossian, Troika, Picaresque, Lieutenant, Kama, Mesmerize, Tritium, Pernicious, Buddha, Minaret, Dahlia, Tamarind, Virgule, Eocene, Zephyr, Fuselage, Nisei, Philately, Euthanasia, Jacamar, Chauvinism, Alim, Perestroika, Fennec, Lahar, Weimaraner, Baedeker, Sarsaparilla, Croesus, Jnana.
In the National Spelling Bee in Washington DC she spelled all the words correctly but failed to qualify in the written test. When she participated in the National Spelling Bee she had turned 6. She is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. In an interview her mother Annie said she discovered her talent when Edith spelled the word Restaurant correctly during an family dinner table conversation. Edith is homeschooled by her mother.
In my childhood I remember an incident when I could spell the word Government correctly at a very young age. Most other kids would forget the n in government but I did not.
If you type in the name Edith Fuller you will get to see lots of videos and news stories of this child prodigy. From NPR to Time magazine to NBC to CBS she has been featured everywhere.
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