Nathan Settevendemie made it to the 10th round of the annual spelling competition and spelled and defined words like ...

Zaki bested Sarvadnya Kadam in the 20th round to win the 2025 spelling bee on May 29 with the word éclaircissement, which he spelled without hesitation before collapsing to the f ...

Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripp Spelling Bee.

Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he ...

Michigan will be represented by nine spellers when the kids begin competing in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

He performed stand-up for over a decade in England — in the British style of working toward ... but her true mastery is in the club-comedy art of layering punch lines and tagging jokes.

Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell, by Gabe Henry ... and their stage performances helped lay the groundwork for modern standup comedy; the suffragist Eliza Burnz — ...

English, sadly, has one of the most chaotic spelling systems in the world. Consider this: “tomb” rhymes with “room” but not with “comb.” “Laughter” rhymes with “after” but not ...

English spelling is famously inconsistent, and for New York-based writer and editor Gabe Henry, that maddening inconsistency set off a deeper curiosity. "I've always struggled with spelling in a ...

and dated “Ogust 6,” it was written in the eccentric, phonetic stylings of the Simplified Spelling Movement ... They rebelled against our irregular English orthography—you know, the ...

The spelling primer’s first edition conformed to traditional English orthography, with, for instance, entries for “theatre,” “publick” and “colour.” After the publication of the ...

Key also wrote the script along with Tom Basden and their dialogue is insanely sharp featuring that legendary dry, British wit ... employs plenty of classic comedy direction with broad slapstick ...