5/31/13

'Knaidel' for the win (mazol tov!)

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'Knaidel' for the win (mazol tov!)

After back to back third place finishes, Arvind Mahankali of New York became the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Arvind Mahankali out of N.

After back to back third place finishes, Arvind Mahankali of New York became the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Arvind Mahankali out of N.

The 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee came down to Pranav Sivakumar versus Arvind Mahankali. Both have made the national spelling bee before, but four-time national spelling bee contestant Mahankal, 13, pulled it out.

Watch: Arvind Mahankali spells 'knaidel,' wins spelling bee. 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali of Bayside Hills, New York won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling 'knaidel,' a German-derived Yiddish word for a dumpling. (May 31)

But what, exactly, does "knaidel" mean? And could it also be spelled “kneidel”? Or is it “kneydl”? According to the bee's official pronouncer, Jacques Bailly, a knaidel is “a small mass of leavened dough cooked by boiling water or steaming as with soup.

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