Rapper Drake Name-Dropped During National Spelling Bee

Is this the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s transparent attempt to get more young people to watch its annual competition? If so, it might be working.

During one young man’s turn, in which he was asked to spell the word “bacchius,” the judge presented the following as an example sentence: “Rumor has it that Drake’s next mixtape contains a rap in which every verse begins and ends with a bacchius.”

Was that enough to help him spell it correctly? And what are we to make of these alleged rumors?

Watch video below, via ESPN:

[h/t Gawker]
[Photo via screengrab]

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