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	Scripps National Spelling Bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Spelling Bee was formed in 1925 as a consolidation of numerous local spelling bees.
		The winner of each year's bee is awarded a cash prize including $12,000 from the Scripps National Spelling Bee and a cup.
		June of each year, and is open to students under sixteen years of age who have not yet completed the eighth grade nor won a previous National Spelling Bee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Spelling_Bee

	Spelling bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, spelling bees are annually held from local levels up to the level of the Scripps National Spelling Bee which awards a scholarship to the winner.
		The National Spelling Bee is sponsored by English-language newspapers ; it is also broadcast on ESPN.
		The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee had its world premiere and moved on to become an award-winning Broadway success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spelling_bee

	Telemundo.com - Education - National Spelling Bee Kicks Off In Washington
		The purpose of the National Spelling Bee is to help students improve spelling, increase vocabularies, learn concepts and develop correct English usage that will help them all of their lives.
		The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the nation's largest and longest-running educational promotion.
		There are four spellers who are making their fourth trip to the national spelling bee.
	www.telemundo.com /education/4553657/detail.html

	Spelling bee's tough -- definitely
		Smith choose to spell the word "definitely" with an "a," and it was a choice that helped eliminate her in the second round from the 76th Annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
		Although the focus was on spelling, Smith and her mother, Lydia, had plenty of other activities during their time in Washington, D.C. A member of Rep. Adam Smith's staff gave the two a private tour of the Capitol.
		She spelled aubergine, which means the color of eggplant, and piscivorous, the word describing feeding on fishes.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/124107_bee29.html

	FAQ
		For seasoned spellers who have broadened their spelling foundation, we recommend Nat's Notes, which is a compilation of 10,000+ old National Bee, Regional Bee, and Advanced Level annual study list words plus other arcane selections we added.
		7 of the top 10 at the 2005 National Bee were "ours", as were 6 of the last 9 champions!
		This is a most comprehensive book covering not only spelling rules, their exceptions and conventions, but also an encyclopedic list of Latin and Greek elements with related English words plus discussions of many of the primary languages that have melded into our own with rules for learning their unique pronunciations and spellings.
	www.hexco.com /faq.htm

	WFOR: Eighth-Grade Boy Wins U.S. Spelling Bee
		Anurag, a straight-A middle-school student whose favorite subject is science, tied for 47th in last year's spelling bee.
		Most of the contestants at the bee's start were from the United States and its territories, but 14 were foreign students.
		Two years ago, when Samir tied for third place, bee winner Sai Gunturi predicted that he would be a force to be reckoned with in future contests.
	cbs4.com /newsentertainment/entertainment_story_152181632.html

	Spellbound
		They’re going after the coveted first place at the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., which is more or less the Olympics for spellers under the age of 16 and not yet out of eighth grade.
		The wrong letter bursts out of his mouth when he knows perfectly well what the right one is. But in a spelling bee you can’t take back a letter — even if you’re only part way through spelling the word.
		It turns out, though, that a window into the world of spelling bees shows that it’s about more than just spelling.
	msnbc.com /news/500658.asp?launch=/modules/dl_spelling_bee/game/&cp1=1

	Spelling bee scandal!! (kottke.org)
		The Spelling Bee is not the kind of place where scams and dirty underhand tricks occur...
		Spelling Bees seems so pure as the driven snow that I have a hard time thinking poorly of them.
		Unlike a tournament which has a set number of rounds or a quiz which has a "best of," a spelling bee is sudden-death, play till you drop, like dance-off's in the 1920's.
	www.kottke.org /04/06/spelling-bee-scandal

	CanSpell canada.com
		The Scripps National Spelling Bee notes that those rules contain provisions that are specific to unique conditions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals, and their implementation at a local level is considered impossible and not recommended.
		Spellers' competition in the Spelling Bee begins with their competition in their local classroom spelling bee (and/or school-wide spelling bee, and/or school district spelling bee, as applicable), as operated by and according to the rules of their school.
		All levels of the Spelling Bee may be filmed for the purposes of news reporting and/or the creation of a documentary program.
	www.canada.com /national/features/canspell/contestrules.html

	Spelling Bee Information - Sonoran Desert Homeschoolers
		This is a reprint of an article about spelling bee preparation, written by a Maine homeschooler who competed in the 1996 National Spelling Bee.
		The 2005 Homeschoolers Spelling Bee was held January 12, 2005.
		There are also links to the official rules, the 2003 Spelling Bee Timeline, and a list of past state spelling bee winners.
	www.hozho.homestead.com /SpellingBee.html

	C4 News - World - Competition - Fainting spell
		In a new definition of a fainting spell, the runner-up in the National Spelling Bee apparently fainted on Thursday when asked to spell "alopecoid" in the contest eventually won by a 14-year-old Indiana boy.
		He said his favorite movie was "Spellbound," a documentary about the National Spelling Bee, an annual rite of nerves for children under the age of 16 administered by E. Scripps Co. and some 250 other sponsors.
		Akshay Buddiga, 13, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, recovered enough to spell the word correctly and continued into the championship round, but he stood out from the crowd by spelling from a seated position, unlike the other competitors, who remained standing as they spelled.
	www.channel4.com /news/2004/06/week_1/04_spell.html

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Poway eighth-grader wins National Spelling Bee
		Speller Nation's three co-founders, Jesse Zymet, Josh Dawsey and Eric Zyman-Carraseo, all competitors in past National Spelling Bees themselves, took the week off from school to be in Washington and help their friends study.
		For winning the spelling bee, Anurag received $22,000 cash from Scripps National Spelling Bee, LeapFrog and Franklin Electronic Publishers; a $5,000 scholarship from Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation; reference resources from Encyclopaedia Brittanica and a $1,000 savings bond and reference library from Merriam-Webster.
		After seeing Anurag win an unofficial "mock spelling bee" in the hotel lobby, the Scott-Howmans picked him to win.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20050602-1651-cnsspell.html

	Spelling Bee
		The Howard County Library Spelling Bee was sponsored by The Baltimore Sun and organized under the rules of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
		The National Spelling Bee will be held May 29 through June 3 in Washington, DC.
		The Howard County Government Information Channel (GTV, cable channel 70) featured the Howard County Library Spelling Bee during its Inside Howard County news magazine at the end of March.
	www.howa.lib.md.us /partners/spellingbee.cfm

	Some Rules and Suggestions about Spelling
		Spelling, like vocabulary building, is ultimately a personal matter, and only a planned and sustained effort to improve spelling will have the desired results.
		Improving your spelling skills is largely a matter of personal commitment: looking up a word you're not sure of, keeping the dictionary at hand, keeping a list of words you know you have trouble with.
		The letter in women is pronounced as in tip, but women is the only word in the English language in which this correspondence between spelling and sound occurs—a singularity from which no other words take their cues for pronunciation.
	webster.commnet.edu /grammar/spelling.htm

	National Spelling Bee
		The National Spelling Bee was launched by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal in 1925.
		But the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee actually starts months before, as competition is narrowed at school, local, and regional events.
		Many think that this use of "bee" was inspired by the hard-working social insect of the same name.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/spellingbee1.html

	Spelling bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scripps National Spelling Bee was initiated in 1925 as the National Spelling Bee by the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal.
		In the United States, spelling bees are annually held from local levels up to the level of the Scripps National Spelling Bee which awards a cash prize to the winner.
		The earliest evidence of the phrase "spelling bee" in print dates back to 1825, although the contests had apparently been held before that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spelling_bee (489 words)

	Scripps National Spelling Bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly known as the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee) is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a non-profit basis by The E. Scripps Company, held at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel in Washington, DC.
		The National Spelling Bee (or NSB) was formed in 1925 as a consolidation of numerous local spelling bees.
		The bee is held in late May and/or early June of each year, and is open to students under sixteen years of age who have not yet completed the eighth grade nor won a previous National Spelling Bee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee (598 words)

	Welcome to Scripps.com: Announcements:
		The spelling competition began Tuesday with 265 competitors who qualified to compete in the national spelling bee by winning locally sponsored bees in their home communities.
		The Scripps National Spelling Bee is administered year-round on a not-for-profit basis by Scripps, and 251 local sponsors.
		All of the students who competed in the national spelling bee received cash prizes ranging from $50 to the $12,000 championship prize.
	cfapps.scripps.com /announce/announce.asp?sub=showdoc&IDAnnounce=687 (598 words)

	MSN Encarta - Could You Win the National Spelling Bee?
		You may be a good speller, but could you win the National Spelling Bee ?
		We provide the definition--all you need to do is pick the right spelling.
		Try these winning words from years past and see.
	encarta.msn.com /quiz_71/Could_You_Win_the_National_Spelling_Bee.html (598 words)

	Indiana boy wins National Spelling Bee - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		The point of the bee is to help children improve their vocabularies, learn spelling concepts and develop correct English usage.
		A total of 46 children were still in the running as the 2004 bee resumed competition Thursday, the finals of the three-day event.
		The bee took a scary turn earlier on its final day when Buddiga appeared to faint, drawing gasps from an audience packed in for the finals.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5122188 (598 words)

	Homeschooling: Back to the Future?
		The two men earned national reputations as educational pioneers, working independently of one another, eloquently addressing the angst that a diverse body of Americans felt about the modern-day educational system--a system that seemed to exist to further the careers of educational elites instead of one that served the developmental needs of impressionable children.
		In the summer of 1997, at the annual National Education Association convention, an anti-homeschooling resolution was adopted by the representative assembly.
		She was one of 17 homeschooled students among 245 competitors in the 70th annual bee, held in May 1997.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa-294.html (598 words)

	Spelling Bee - Introduction
		In 2000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Spelling Bee achieved national and international acclaim when hometown champion George Abraham Thampy brought home the national trophy for correctly spelling throughout 15 rounds at the national bee.
		For these students, the spelling bee is about both critically important language skills as well as the enormous sense of accomplishment that comes with taking part in this educational tradition.
		Exceptional spellers who win their own school's spelling bees qualify for the regional St. Louis Post-Dispatch Spelling Bee, held annually over three weekends in March at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
	nie.post-dispatch.com /Bee.html (598 words)

	CNN - Excited Brooklyn girl wins National Spelling Bee with 'euonym' - May 29, 1997
		Contestants ages 9 to 15 grappled with the difficult spellings as they stood before a crowd and television cameras in a large hotel ballroom.
		The day started with 116 finalists in the two-day show of spelling prowess.
		The 13-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, said she knew she had won when she was given the word in the 22nd round.
	www.cnn.com /US/9705/29/spelling.bee.final (598 words)

	Grapevine's Ramblings
		Correctly spelling the word that means melodic tone, he clinched the 2005 national spelling bee championship.
		A California 8th grader would up winning the National Spelling Bee, but a local kid came pretty damn close.
		I came across Grapevine Ramblings yesterday (because of his Spelling Bee post) and saw that it had a Code Amber Alert Ticker.
	blog.xtremeramblings.us /?p=428 (598 words)

	National Spelling Bee Nears End
		These and other irksome words thinned the competition at the 2001 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, sending many of the nation's best spellers back to the books with hopes of another chance next year.
		Melanie Kidder, 14, an eighth-grader from Bellaire, Ohio, endured nearly five minutes on stage as judges wearing headphones listened to a taped playback of her spelling "hyoid," referring to bones at the base of the tongue.
		The three-day competition began Tuesday, and by the end of the fourth round, the original group of 248 spellers shrank to 34.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010531/aponline135244_000.htm (598 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - The Bee List: Celebs Spell for FOX
		The documentary feature "Spellbound," about contestants in the National Spelling Bee, was nominated for an Oscar last year, and ESPN's telecast of that event last year actually outdrew some National Hockey League playoff games in the ratings.
		The following statement has perhaps never been written before, but spelling bees are hot at the moment.
		Bernsen is one of 16 famous folks who will take part in "The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee," which will air over three Fridays during February sweeps on FOX.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271860961,00.html (598 words)

	Senior Spelling Bee Official Website of the Senior Spelling Bee
		The Senior Spelling Bee was initiated in 1996 as the National Senior Spelling Bee Finals by a group of Wyoming citizens who recognized the need for an old fashioned Spelling Bee and a need to provide an opportunity for keeping active minds challenged by competing with their counterparts throughout the United States.
		Register Now for the 2006 National Senior Spelling Bee, to be held June 17, 2006 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
		It's all waiting for you at the 10th Annual National Senior Spelling Bee.
	www.seniorspellingbee.com (598 words)

	Event Betting: National Spelling Bee : Oddjack
		The National Spelling Bee gamblers are starting to get antsy as the field gets whittled down to a smaller and smaller bunch.
		In preparation for the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, the Oddjack will feature one speller a day we think has a chance to make an impact in this year’s competition.
		He’s also superstitous—he once wore the same underwear between states and nationals last year, sparking protests from many of the other contestants because of the smell and the fruit flies that constantly followed him.
	www.oddjack.com /gambling/event-betting/national-spelling-bee/index.php (598 words)

	Education World ® : Lesson Planning: Spice Up Your Spelling Lessons
		Spell Check Funbrain.com offers this fun spelling game that challenges students to find the incorrectly spelled word in groups of four words.
		Spelling K-8 The text of Spelling K-8 provides tips for teaching spelling at the whole-school level and at each grade level.
		Spelling and Vocabulary Plans Discover games and activities for spelling practice.
	www.educationworld.com /a_lesson/lesson282.shtml (598 words)

	National Spelling Bee
		Except, of course, in the National Scripps Spelling Bee.
		Not that you could tell this from the spelling bee participants, but then again you can hardly call them average, especially if their parents are around.
		I’d hate to think they spend most of their waking hours getting their butts kicked all over the school yard because they walk around spouting off words like quafure, exsiccosis, and onychophagy, even when they are appropriate.
	www.maddogproductions.com /ds_spelling_bee.htm (598 words)

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