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Spell Along at Home!
If you’re watching the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee and want to play along at home, here are a few spelling quizzes we’ve run over the years. We should be doing regular spelling quizzes. Any...
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The Quick 10: The Last 10 Words of the 2011 Scripps Spelling Bee
Last week, eighth grader Sukanya Roy of South Abington Township, Pa., clinched one of the longest-running Scripps National Spelling Bees ever by rattling off the correct letters of “Cymotrichous” with...
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A Gallery Of Re-Imagined Movie Posters
Adam Rabalais decided to try his hand at re-designing classic movie posters, with nation of origin appropriate spelling and style, and without all of the clutter present in the average lobby fare....
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11 Words With a ‘Q’ But No ‘U’ Acceptable in Words With Friends
At this very moment, someone is Googling “Words With Friends words without vowels,” and there’s a good chance they’ll land on this story I posted last year. If your problem isn’t a lack of vowels but a...
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Spider-Hyphen-Man!
If you’ve ever written about “Spiderman” on the internet, you’ve been schooled in the proper spelling. It’s Spider-Man! Other super heroes don’t use the hyphen. Cartoonist Cathy Leamy of Metrokitty...
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17 Winning Words From Past National Spelling Bees
KEVIN LAMARQUE/Reuters/Landov Yesterday, 14-year-old Snigdha Nandipati from San Diego won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word guetapens, which means “to ambush.” To...
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