Emily Dunham, Melissa Snow & ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander demonstrate an adult spelling bee contest Experience the fun ...

In the past 25 years, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and the occasional grousing older brother or sister have increasingly accompanied children on tricycles, bicycles, scooters, foot or in ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

Words he'd never heard before and sometimes mangled, despite phonetic pronunciation clues. "People will stop me pretty regularly and say, 'That spelling bee is awesome.' It's fun because you have such ...

There was a time, back in the late 70s and early 80s, when spellchecking software only worked with word processing programs. These programs held a finite database of words that it would use to check ...

In the day and age that we live in, proper English spelling and grammar seem to have taken a backseat for students. With internet lingo and texting ruling the hearts and minds of youngsters, learning ...

The National Spelling Bee began in 1925. The winning word that year was "gladiolus." (It's a type of flower.) There has been a tie in the bee three times: in 1950, 1957 and 1962. Two children who were ...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a lot like the whiz kids it depicts: bright, quirky and eager. It's also fresh and funny, sufficiently endearing to overcome a certain sense of slightness ...