Most of the games represented here recall carefree childhood fun. That's not the way most people would describe a school spelling bee. (Case in point: Fellow Going Out Guru Stephanie Merry and I ...

It's spelling bee time! The Scripps National Spelling Bee, the spelling competition that consolidated an array of local bees way back in 1925 and is now the nation's largest and longest-running ...

Over the years the Scripps Spelling Bee has become a greater part of the nation’s pop culture. Much of this can be attributed to ESPN’s quasi-sporting-event coverage of the competition, which ...

The spelling bee brought a $10,000 prize, which he said he would give to his parents. George took third place in the same contest last year, winning $3,000. In 1998, he placed fourth, wining $1,000.

During the 2023 bee, Shah spelled “rommack,” a word with an unknown language of origin that he had never seen before. “The 40 seconds I spent spelling ‘rommack’ exhibited the traits of a champion ...

John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Spelling bees have always been cute. But they’re about to get cuter, because now they will ...

The words asked in the national spelling bee weren’t always so difficult. By Alan Yuhas The words weren’t always this hard. When students first battled the dictionary in a National Spelling ...

Cashore won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1954 at age 14. Now 84, he’s the oldest living champion of the contest, which dates back to 1925. As contestants from this year’s competition headed ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will return this year in a mostly virtual format, with the in-person competition limited to a dozen finalists who will gather on an ESPN campus at Walt Disney ...

This year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was canceled Tuesday, the latest beloved public event to be scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic. National Spelling Bee Canceled for First Time ...