The Scripps National Spelling Bee is here, representing one of the most vigorous - and prestigious - academic competitions in America. Unsurprisingly, a competition as renowned as the national ...

I was just a third grader minding my own business as I rode home on the yellow school bus. The dirt road was bumpy, filled with dried ruts left over from the rare spring rain. I held in my hand a ...

Misty Adoniou is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. She is the author of the Cambridge University Press book 'Spelling ...

(WXYZ) — It's Spelling Bee season, and several local spellers are gearing up for the main stage. "I'm just glad that I was able to make it my last year of being ...

There’s a word UC Berkeley comparative literature Ph.D. student Frank Cahill will never forget. He misspelled it as an eighth grader in the second round of the live televised Scripps National Spelling ...

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Thirteen-year-old Grant Wiebe was disembarking from the emotional roller coaster of the Scripps National Spelling Bee when he had to face his coach, Bill Schaefer, for the first time after stumbling ...

When you misspell a word in Microsoft's Office 365 Web Apps, the app relies entirely on your browser's spell check feature to correct it. On a computer running the Windows 8 operating system, however, ...

Former Apple software engineer and designer Ken Kocienda, whose work included the original iPhone and the development of touchscreen autocorrect, has created his first iOS app, Up Spell. The ...

If you’re not one for big hullabaloos, you might have missed this week’s toughest word. By Eve Washington Josh Katz and Tom Giratikanon Note: If you plan to play Spelling Bee’s Past Puzzles from the ...