7 of the 8 Spelling Bee winners are Indian Americans. Here's why that's not surprising

[nahtanbob]

71st 1998 chiaroscurist Jody-Anne Maxwell Phillips & Phillips Stationery Suppliers Kingston, Jamaica [70][71]
72nd 1999 logorrhea Nupur Lala[G] The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida [72][73]
73rd 2000 demarche George Thampy[E][G] St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri [74]
74th 2001 succedaneum Sean Conley Aitkin Independent Age Anoka, Minnesota [75]
75th 2002 prospicience Pratyush Buddiga Rocky Mountain News Denver, Colorado [76]
76th 2003 pococurante Sai Gunturi Dallas Morning News Dallas, Texas [77]
77th 2004 autochthonous David Tidmarsh South Bend Tribune South Bend, Indiana [78]
78th 2005 appoggiatura Anurag Kashyap San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego, California [79]
79th 2006 Ursprache Kerry Close Asbury Park Press/Home News Tribune Spring Lake, New Jersey [80]
80th 2007 serrefine Evan O'Dorney Contra Costa Times Walnut Creek, California [81]
81st 2008 guerdon Sameer Mishra Journal & Courier West Lafayette, Indiana [82]
82nd 2009 Laodicean Kavya Shivashankar The Olathe News Olathe, Kansas [83]
83rd 2010 stromuhr Anamika Veeramani The Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio [84]
84th 2011 cymotrichous Sukanya Roy Times Leader Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania [85]
85th 2012 guetapens Snigdha Nandipati U-T San Diego San Diego, California [86]
86th 2013 knaidel Arvind Mahankali New York Daily News New York City [87]
87th 2014 stichomythia Sriram J. Hathwarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI Corning Rotary Club Corning, New York [88]
feuilleton Ansun Sujoehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas
88th 2015 scherenschnitte Vanya Shivashankarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI The Olathe News Olathe, Kansas [89]
nunatak Gokul Venkatachalamhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri
89th 2016 Feldenkrais Jairam Hathwarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI Corning Rotary Club Corning, New York [90]
gesellschaft Nihar Saireddy Jangahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions#endnote_fourteenI Houston Public Media Austin, Texas
90th 2017 marocain Ananya Vinay The Fresno Bee Fresno, California [91]
91st 2018 koinonia Karthik Nemmani Scoggins Middle School (RSVBee wild card) McKinney, Texas [92]

 

[SQ8]

I would be surprised if an Indian cannot spell Logorrhea .. its their SOP everywhere in supposed intellectual discussion.