Berrendos Middle School seventh-grader Bethany Strom said she had likely passed by the word "nomenclative" in the dictionary before, but that didn't help her spell the adjective at an event she had only seen on TV before last weekend - the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
The rapidly approaching 19th Annual Santa Paula Times Executive Spelling Bee on Wednesday, May 28, means lots of fun for the community, and some very special entertainment as well.
It is unlikely Anna Hughes, Martha's Vineyard's reigning spelling bee champion, will ever forget the word "hibernaculum" after participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. last week.
When Kavya Shivashankar returned home from her third Scripps National Spelling Bee, she found her front door decorated with tokens of support from her best friends.
It s high time for families to be finding fun things for kids to do this summer. The following is a sampling of 4-H activities slated for youth. If your agency or group has summer events you d like to publicize, please send them to frontdoor@tdn.com or to czimmerman@tdn.com
As if spelling obscure, multisyllabic words in a single language wasn't difficult enough, 25 students from schools in Houston and Mexico competed Saturday in a bilingual spelling bee.
As we are reminded every summer, three little months can amount to quite a bit of stuff going on, especially when those months are June, July and August.
Editor s note: Connor Flexman, 14, is competing in the National Spelling Bee this week in Washington, D.C. Flexman is a student at Elgin Academy; he won the Kane County Spelling Bee and a spot in the national competition earlier this year. He is sending notebook entries this week about his experiences in Washington.
There weren t any tears or heavy sighs Friday night from Eagle View Middle School eighth-grader Jahnavi Iyer just a disappointed look of resignation that she had misspelled parfleche.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former Decatur resident and Herald & Review speller Greg Touney keeps coming back to the Scripps National Spelling Bee every year. He can't get enough of its sesquipedalian fun.
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