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'F-R-A-N-K-E-N-S-T-E-I-N' the Winning Word in Douglas Co. Spelling Bee
Turner Middle School eighth-grader also correctly spelled "topography" to win annual event, advance to district competition.
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Turner Middle School eighth-grader Briana Echols spelled “topography” and “Frankenstein” correctly to win the Douglas County School System spelling bee Thursday at the county courthouse.
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The school system shared the news on Facebook Friday.
Echols finished ahead of runner-up Alana Miles of North Douglas Elementary School.
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“I’m still nervous. My legs are shaking,” Echols said in a Douglas County Sentinel article. “I studied with my dad and my sister helped me. We went through all the words (and) the words that I thought were the hardest to me, I wrote them down.”
Echols moves on to the District 4 Spelling Bee on Feb. 28 at the DeKalb County Board of Education.
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