Ramon Padua, Jr., speller 50, didn't like his word. At least not at first.
"I think I mentally threw up," he said when he got to the mic.
Then, the Guam fifth grader heard the definition for his word, "Zurich:"
of or from the city of Zurich, Switzerland.
"Oooooooh," he said. He got it right.
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