Zaila Avant-Garde from Louisiana, she’s
just fourteen, first black winner, she isentirely amazing,
accomplished in many categories, she won the National Spelling Bee
by spelling the word Murraya. I had to
look it up. Its orange jasmine, a species of
shrub in the small tree family Rutaceae, native to
South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia. (Peter
said Murraya is probably named for a man named
Murray who found it somewhere. I hope he’s right.)
Absolutely agree. And agree with Peter, thinking of forsythia and poinsettia. But I want to know the story of her last name.