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National Spelling Bee word morphs into a T-shirt

By Susan Denley
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What’s our favorite new word that we never heard of before?

Guetapens. It means ‘snare’ or ‘ambush,’ and it’s the word that Snigdha Nandipati, an eighth-grader at Francis Parker School in La Jolla, nailed on Thursday to win this year’s National Spelling Bee Championship.

The quick-thinking folks at online retailer CafePress printed a T-shirt in honor of this obscure word (so obscure it is not in my Webster’s) vaulting into the popular lexicon. Men’s, women’s and kids’ versions come in nine different colors; crewneck, scoop- or V-neck styles; tanks, long or short sleeves -- all for sale on the website starting around $18.99 for a tank.

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I think I might be guetapensed into buying one.

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-- Susan Denley

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Susan Denley

Susan Denley is a former contributor to the All the Rage blog, associate features editor and editor of the Image section, which covers fashion, style, beauty – and their intersection with Hollywood and California culture. Over a career spanning four newspapers and two coasts, she’s been responsible for a wide variety of features and hard news beats as a reporter, editor or department manager. Denley left The Times in 2015.

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