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In the News (Mon 9 Nov 09)

  
  Jennifer Dziura, comedian and writer ... home of jen is famous, jenisfamous, Grammatically Correct Comedy, the ...
The Williamsburg Spelling Bee is a real, cabaret-style, adults-only spelling bee that takes place every other Monday at Pete's Candy Store in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The Williamsburg Spelling Bee began in September 2004, with winners from the twice-monthly bees squaring off in the first-ever Finals on April 11, 2005 (won by Maria Luisa Gambale, 32, of Brooklyn).
Spelling bees are usually the province of elementary school students, not twenty- and thirtysomething hipsters competing for bar tab.
www.jenisfamous.com /spelling.shtml   (652 words)

  
  Spelling bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Spelling Bee was initiated in 1925 by the newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky, the Louisville 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 National Spelling Bee is sponsored by English-language newspapers and educational foundations; it is also broadcast on ESPN.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spelling_bee   (596 words)

  
 Scripps National Spelling Bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Spelling Bee was formed in 1925 as a consolidation of numerous local spelling bees, organized by the Louisville Courier-Journal and having nine competitors.
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.
A thirteen-year-old eighth-grader, Anurag Kashyap, won the 2005 spelling bee on June 2, correctly spelling "appoggiatura" in the nineteenth round; there were 273 spellers in the 2005 bee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee   (1753 words)

  
 Simplified Spelling Society : Spelling Bee 2006.
After all, Maguire is telling the story of spelling bees, which tend to attract the strange and the geeky.
The American spelling bee's roots stretch back into the 19th century (apparently there was a major fad in the 1870s) and every year 9 million school kids participate in local bees, getting winnowed down to the top 250, who go to Washington to compete on a national level.
Spelling bees, which have always been popular among logolepts and verbiphages, are a particularly hot cultural touchstone now.
www.spellingsociety.org /news/media2006/spellingbee2006.php   (1226 words)

  
 New Zealand National Spelling Bee Competition rules
The top three place getters from the Auckland and Wellington regional spelling bees and the top two place getters from the Hamilton, Christchurch and Dunedin regional spelling bees, will be entitled to enter the New Zealand National Spelling Bee in Wellington.
To minimise disruption to the pace of the spelling bee and the concentration of the spellers, the judge(s) are under no obligation to stop the spelling bee in order to discuss the spelling bee with the speller or his/her parent/caregiver or teacher.
At the end of a spelling bee: (1) If none of the spellers remaining in the bee at the start of a round spells a word correctly during that round, all will remain in the competition.
www.spellingbee.co.nz /competition/comp-rules.html   (813 words)

  
 Gannett News Service Spelling Bee 2006 coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Saryn was booted from the competition when she spelled her eighth-round word "h-e-c-h-s-h-e-r" and the judges said it was supposed to be "h-e-c-h-s-c-h-e-r.
Next year's participants in spelling bees across the country may want to add another topic to their preparation: makeup.
Paige Kimble, bee director, said she and ABC, which is broadcasting the finals in prime time tonight, have a slight disagreement over how many spellers should remain for the evening session.
gns.gannettonline.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=BEE   (1293 words)

  
 Spelling bee: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A spelling bee is an oral competition where contestants are asked to spell spelling quick summary:
Spelling is the writing of a word or words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in the correct order....
The united states national spelling bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a non-profit basis by the e.w....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spelling_bee.htm   (688 words)

  
 San Angelo Standard-Times Spelling Bee
Spelling order is chosen at random prior to the Bee so that numbered placards for each student can be made.
Bee officials are selected well in advance and will be familiar with the words to be called and the rules of the Bee.
Like the national bee, the purpose of the Bee is to help students improve their spelling and vocabulary, learn new concepts, and proper English word usage that will benefit them throughout their lives.
web.sastandardtimes.com /bee/index.htm   (528 words)

  
 SPELLING BEE Reviews
"Spelling Bee" is the product of tremendously smart minds who have created characters that are fully dimensional and distinctly individual in ways that go well beyond their idiosyncratic methods for arriving at the correct spelling of a word.
It's not sung through and, though Spelling Bee puts a fair amount of youthful vulnerability on stage (whoever said being twelve is all angst-free fun?) this is essentially a light-hearted, feel-good show that prompts such easy to spell adjectives as charming, sweet, endearing and quirky.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is indeed something of a cross between Avenue Q and The Fantasticks which was an Off-Off-Broadway staple for nearly half a century.
www.ungerware.net /beerev.htm   (3843 words)

  
 World Wide Words: Spelling bee
Bees were also often social occasions, of course, with food and entertainment provided to reward people for their help, and sometimes also to an extent competitive to keep people working.
The term spelling bee wasn’t applied to them at the time, since bee was then firmly attached to the idea of communal manual work (yet another, spelldown, modelled on hoe-down, only arrived at the end of the century).
It was in July 1874 that I’ve found the term spelling bee appearing for the first time, in a report of a school event in Brooklyn in which a pupil recites The Spelling Bee by Nellie Watkins as an elocution exercise.
www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-spe2.htm   (891 words)

  
 Spelling Bee Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Bakersfield City School District Spelling Bee is an oral competition and uses the Kern County Spelling Bee Rules as adapted from the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
Having started to spell a word, a speller may stop and start over, retracing the spelling from the beginning, but in retracing there can be no change of letters or their sequence from those first pronounced.
The Spelling Bee winner and second place contestant from each region will be invited to represent the Bakersfield City School District at the Kern County Spelling Bee on Wednesday, February 10, 2005.
departments.bcsd.com /vpa/SpellBeeRules.htm   (468 words)

  
 Senior Spelling Bee Official Website of the Senior Spelling Bee
The 2007 National Senior Spelling Bee is planned for Saturday, June 16, 2007 in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Bee is a fun, yet challenging event, open to anyone age 50 or older except previous winners.
The bee was started a dozen years ago by a group of AARP members in Cheyenne who wanted a way to challenge their friends and fellow retirees to keep their minds sharp as they age.
The AARP-sponsored bee is similar in format to the Scripps Howard bee for students, but the 50-plus aged spellers get to miss three words before being knocked out of the competition, they pay their own way to participate in the bee and are competing for a modest purse ($100 for the top speller).
www.seniorspellingbee.com   (738 words)

  
 ABC.com - The 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee, the nation's largest and longest running educational promotion, is administered on a not-for-profit basis by Scripps and 280 local sponsors.
The purpose of the Scripps 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, which is held each year in Washington DC, will begin on Wednesday May 30, featuring top spellers from across the U.S. and including competitors from Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, American Samoa, Canada and New Zealand.
abc.go.com /specials/spellingbee.html   (246 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner News - Spelling Bee Champions get Jamaica Gleaner scholarships - Friday | August 18, 2006
The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee GSAT County Scholarship recipients and their coaches (from left, in front): Shari Rowe, Adrian Raymond and Regina Bish with (back row, from left): Cherilla Maddan, The Gleaner's Oliver Clarke, Sylvia Stanley, Patricia Buchanan, and Glen Archer.
Meanwhile, Sylvia Stanley, Adrian Raymond's teacher, said the Spelling Bee competition has aided in the development of children at her school.
A spelling champion in 1965, Rev. Archer said the experience of participating in a competition is a lasting one.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060818/news/news1.html   (574 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Spelling bee protesters: Enuf is enuf!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And the national spelling bee only reinforces the crazy spellings that lead to dyslexia, high illiteracy, and harder lives for immigrants.
Bee spokesman Mark Kroeger said good spelling comes from knowing the story behind a word — what language it comes from, what it means.
Carrying signs reading "I'm thru with through," "Spelling shuud be lojical," and "Spell different difrent," the protesters — who first protested two years ago, but skipped last year — drew chuckles from bee contestants.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-06-02-spelling-protest_x.htm   (416 words)

  
 About the Arizona Spelling Bee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Spelling Bee is an event that challenges children K-8 to utilize their spelling and phonetic skills in a competitive environment.
The top 25 spellers in the state compete in the State Spelling Bee to determine who will represent Arizona in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The winner and an escort receive an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. to compete with spellers from all over the nation.
To compete in the Arizona Spelling Bee, finalists must win a series of competitions at local, district and regional or county levels.
www.azedfoundation.org /asb-about.html   (302 words)

  
 Spelling Bee Quizzes and Spelling Bee Trivia -- FunTrivia
Definitions are given for words which are often spelled incorrectly.
Spelling demons are words that are spelled right, even though they look wrong.
All words are those that have won past Scripps National Spelling Bees.
www.funtrivia.com /dir/4582.html   (999 words)

  
 Spelling-bee
The term 'bee' has been used in the USA with the meaning of 'gathering', either for work, pleasure or competition, since the mid 18th century.
The best-known 'bee', and the one that remains in common use, is the 'spelling bee'.
It seems that spelling tests were arranged earlier, but that they were simply called 'spellings' rather than 'spelling-bees'.
www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/spelling-bee.html   (528 words)

  
 National Spelling Bee
In 2006, Katharine Close, an eighth grader from New Jersey, took home $30,000 in cash, scholarships and bonds, among other prizes, for correctly spelling "ursprache." This was her fifth time competing in the spelling bee and she is the first girl to win since 1999.
The National Spelling Bee was launched by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal in 1925.
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   (595 words)

  
 Indiana boy wins National Spelling Bee - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
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.
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 point of the bee is to help children improve their vocabularies, learn spelling concepts and develop correct English usage.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5122188   (750 words)

  
 local6.com - Education - Indiana Boy Spells 'Autochthonous' To Win Bee
The word was "alopecoid" -- and he spelled it perfectly, bringing the crowd to its feet.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the nation's largest and longest running educational promotion.
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.
www.local6.com /education/3377283/detail.html   (545 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Spelling-bee protesters 'thru with through'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Members of the American Literacy Society picketed the 77th annual spelling bee, which is sponsored every year by Cincinnati-based Scripps Howard.
The protesters' complaints: English spelling is illogical, and the national spelling bee only reinforces the crazy spellings that they say contribute to dyslexia, high illiteracy and harder lives for immigrants.
The protesters contend that the illogical spelling of English words makes dyslexia more difficult to overcome and helps explain studies that suggest one in five Americans are functionally illiterate.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001945879_spell03.html   (380 words)

  
 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Each sponsor organizes a spelling bee program in its community, usually with the cooperation of area school officials.
The champion of the sponsor’s final spelling bee advances to the finals in Washington, D.C. Sponsorship is available on a limited basis to daily and weekly newspapers serving English-speaking populations around the world.
In general, the program is open to students who have not reached their 16th birthday on or before the date of the national finals and who have not passed beyond the eighth grade at the time of their school finals.
www.spellingbee.com /about.asp   (356 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Spelling bee nixed because it 'leaves child behind'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A school district in Rhode Island canceled its annual spelling bee this year because administrators decided the crowning of only one winner violates the main principle of the federal No Child Left Behind Act – that all children should succeed.
A spelling bee, she continued, is about "some kids being winners, some kids being losers," which "sends a message that this isn't an all-kids movement."
Newman said she and the district's elementary school principals made a unanimous decision to cancel their local competition shortly after the January 2004 event, agreeing that a spelling bee does not meet the criteria of all children reaching high standards, the Woonsocket paper said.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42599   (513 words)

  
 Spelling Bee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Each speller remaining in the spelling bee at the start of a round shall spell one word in the round, except as during the final round between the last two spellers.
If the second speller spells that word correctly, plus the next word on the pronouncer's list, then the second speller shall be declared the champion.
If this other speller then succeeds in correcting the error and spells the next word on the list, then he or she shall be declared the champion.
fc.newbraunfels.txed.net /~cschurz/spellingbeeRules.html   (583 words)

  
 Spelling Bee
The 2006 CHEC Spelling Bee was held this past Saturday, February 18th, 2006 at Bear Valley Church in Lakewood, Colorado.
Before this year's CHEC Spelling bee started, our 2005 Colorado State champion speller from last year, Josiah Hamill made a guest appearance and gave our spellers a few words of encouragement and advice.
In March of 2005, Josiah Hamill a homeschooler from Franktown, Colorado captured the Colorado Scripps Howard Spelling Bee.
www.chec.org /Events/SpellingBee/Index.html   (275 words)

  
 Click2Houston.com - Education - National Spelling Bee Kicks Off In Washington
The 273 boys and girls are contestants in the 78th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.
And there was a smile, though a sad one, on the face of an Illinois sixth-grader listening to the judge correct her spelling effort.
There are four spellers who are making their fourth trip to the national spelling bee.
www.click2houston.com /education/4553657/detail.html   (667 words)

  
 Attention comes with territory as spelling bee turns 80 - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kavya's experience underscores the fact that the national spelling bee has become a big media event, spurred in part by the fact that its championship rounds are now shown live on primetime network television.
The 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee — the 80th one — will be shown on ABC for the second year.
Kavya Shivashankar spells out a word on her hand in last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Here, Shivashankar spelled correctly the word "anacoluthon" to advance to the next round.
www.usatoday.com /news/education/2007-05-28-bee-main_N.htm?csp=34   (727 words)

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