December 6th, 2007
America’s Top Speller, Evan O’Dorney
by: Sarah

This kid, Evan O’Dorney, won the National Spelling Bee back in June of this year.

I just saw his videos on YouTube and thought it was funny how he shows up the news anchor about the pronunciation of his name, Dorney versus O’Dorney. Mid interview, the anchor appears to attempt a little ‘placed advertising’ with the Tuna Sub from Subway, which is rather funny. Evan torments the news anchor by complaining about her pronunciation again when she asked him to spell scombridae, and with her pronouncing it wrong he spelled, s-c-o-m-b-e-r-i-d-a-e. Little Evan blames him adding an E on her pronunciation.

Evan out-spelled over 200 contestants in the spelling bee, but his passion is math.

Jimmy Kimmel learns a little of his math side in their interview, Evan shows Kimmel that there are tiny math graphs in the wood grain on his desk. Continuing with the interview, Kimmel was asking normal interview questions but Evan does not seem to want to answer, or maybe he just does not understand, “On a scale of 1 to 10 how excited are you about it?” Although, any other slightly complex question he answers with flair. Maybe Evan is just selective with what he wants to answer, or hear. Kimmel seems to be stifling a bit of laughter throughout the entire interview.

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Info: Posted December 6th, 2007  in The Internet, Video
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