OXON HILL, Md. – The sign outside the waiting room read: "Preliminaries Test, Quiet Please." Spellers emerged one by one, having taken the first vocabulary test in the history of the National Spelling ...
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- Jae Canetti said he screamed "No!" when he learned the National Spelling Bee would be introducing a vocabulary test. He started changing the way he prepared, studying ...
As if knowing how to spell words such as 'guetapens' and 'cymotrichous' wasn't hard enough for a child taking part in the National Spelling Bee - now they need to know what they mean, too. Organizers ...