Kennyi Aouad couldn’t stop laughing.
The charming and infectious 13-year-old became a worldwide sensation after he giggled through the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee when given the prompt “sardoodledom” as his next word. His joyful and jovial reaction caught worldwide attention, not to mention his grace under pressure. The sweet speller is all grown up now, but video from his 2007 spelling bee performance is going viral again, with viewers responding to the innocence of the boy’s unfiltered reaction to the obscure word choice.
In the video, the then 13-year-old Aouad can be seen responding to the spelling bee moderator’s prompt: “sardoodledom.” The boy attempts to keep his composure but comes down with a serious case of the giggles upon hearing the quirky-sounding word read aloud. He tries to recover his cool a few times but breaks out into laughter over and over again, taking the audience and the moderator with him. It’s a sweet moment and a pleasant reminder that even under the bright lights of TV cameras and the pressure of a national competition, kids are still kids—and a funny word is always worth a laugh.
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Aouad went on to correctly spell “sardoodledom,” which means melodrama, before getting tripped up on the word “palatschinken.” He finished a respectable fifth place in the 2007 National Spelling Bee, but his appearance lives on thanks to social media resurfacing the video.
The charming young boy—now a registered pharmacist who earned his Doctor of Pharmacy from Midwestern University in Illinois after earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Carleton College—was actually delayed in speaking as a child. Spelling bees were seen as a way to help him overcome his speech challenges.
The Internet is having funwith this spelling bee blast from the past. One commenter wrote, “I love this so much. His over-the-top joy is everything.” Another added, “Now this is worthy of letting this clip repeat.”
“His giggle is contagious,” shared another. “I needed that smile today.”
We couldn’t agree more.
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