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The Winner of the 2006 Spelling Bee

Congratulations to 13-year-old Katharine "Kerry" Close of Spring Lake, N.J., who spelled ursprache�a word meaning "a parent language, especially one reconstructed from the evidence of later languages"�to win the 79th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, June 1, 2006.

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