Indian-origin Dev Shah won the prestigious 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee last night, taking away a $50,000 cash prize by correctly spelling the 11-letter word "psammophile".
Dev Shah, a 14-year-old Indian-American teenager from Florida, has won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US, by correctly spelling the word "psammophile" an organism that lives in sandy areas.On Thursday evening, Shah, .
Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Florida, is the champion of this year’s US National Spelling Bee contest. Indian-Americans have been lifting the trophy for years now after Balu Natarajan became the first from the community to win in 1985. But what makes them so good?