A particularly Irish word turned up at America's National Spelling Bee final

There was a nail-biting finish at America’s National Spelling Bee final yesterday as two tweens spelled words that most of us have never even heard of.

After battling 25 rounds head to head, Nihar Janga, from Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, from New York, 13 were eventually crowned co-winners and each awarded a not-so-shabby prize of $40,000.

The pair tackled a variety of obscure words with Jairam winning with "feldenkrais" (a method of education) and Nihar acing "gesellschaft" (a type of social relationship) to become the youngest winner since 2002.