From begging to attend his “dream school” to topping the District IV Spelling Bee, 7th-grader Kaleb Winston now heads to the ...

The energy was electric at Miners Foundry Cultural Center on November 17 and 18, 2025, as Nevada County’s brightest young wordsmiths took the stage for the annual Nevada County Spelling ...

Preply listed nine other words that ranked as the hardest in 2025. (It looks like Aug. 13-14 was a particularly stressful period for puzzlers.) Here's a look at the top 10. EDIFY -- which means to ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means ...

"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

It was a fun-filled evening at First United Methodist Church on Nov. 13 when the tenth annual Fifth Grade Spelling Bee was ...

Oak Ridge School literacy coach Lynne Phinney poses with students in a bee headband at the informal spelling bee last year.

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

In the Mangsir 2082 BS issue of the monthly Shikshak magazine, writer Ananta Wagle has written an article on classroom techniques to expand the vocabulary of school children. He starts by saying that ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Five students shared the top prize Thursday in the Staten Island Catholic School Regional Spelling Bee — after 11 rounds led to an unprecedented word drought. The bee, held at ...