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00:02The winner of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee
00:05was a 14-year-old Indian girl from California.
00:08The winning word, oh, sorry, Indian boy.
00:11The winning word that he correctly spelled was bromocryptine.
00:16It is a...
00:18E-R-O-C-R-I-P-T-I-N-E.
00:23It's a polypeptide alkaloid that is a derivative of ergot
00:29and mimics the activity of dopamine.
00:31Can you use it in a sentence for me?
00:33Pass me the bromocryptine.
00:36What?
00:36Pass me.
00:38That's a sentence?
00:39Pass me the bromocryptine.
00:42I'm like, I guess it is.
00:43That's a sentence.
00:45Yeah.
00:49Country of origin.
00:50All the brilliant kids participating would be embarrassed by this next story.
00:54The website unscrambler.com looked at internet search data
00:58and put out a list of the most problematic words from Americans to spell.
01:03Words that basically people were Googling.
01:07How to spell your.
01:10There.
01:11Yeah.
01:12Those are the two.
01:13Those are easy.
01:14But they're the biggest ones.
01:18But these apparently are America's 10 most misspelled words.
01:23Bougie.
01:24Like, I don't know how to spell bougie off the top of my head.
01:28It's easy.
01:28I really don't.
01:30But at the same time, I'm not writing it down then.
01:33You don't really write bougie down.
01:34I've never.
01:35Bougie?
01:35I don't think I've ever written.
01:36No, I don't think I've ever written it down.
01:38Bougie.
01:39No.
01:39Bougie.
01:39No.
01:40But is this like the B-O-U-G-I-E bougie?
01:44Yeah.
01:44Or is it like the bourgeois?
01:45No, it's bougie.
01:46You got it.
01:47Okay.
01:48Well done, little Indian man.
01:49Check.
01:51Favorite.
01:52Use it in a sentence for me.
01:53You so bougie, big daddy.
01:55There you go.
01:56Done.
01:56B-O-U-G-I-E.
01:58Ding.
02:00Ding.
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