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Browse > Home / SPORTS, Uncategorized, VIDEOS / VIDEO: Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocab Test April 9, 2013 by News Desk   Filed under SPORTS, Uncategorized, VIDEOS Repost This Article Starting this year, spelling bee contestants will have to know both the spelling and meaning of words in order to clinch the championship. Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. To stay in the loop, bookmark our homepage. About News...Read Full Story

A homeschooled 12-year-old girl has won a Baltimore spelling bee and will now go on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. Abby Pepin made it through 27 rounds of competition to win the 8th Annual Baltimore Spelling Bee on Saturday. She won by correctly spelling the word “peccadillo.” Abby beat 52 other students from around the Baltimore area during a competition held at Stephens Hall on the campus of Towson University. “The Baltimore Bee especially is just a great showcase of all of...Read Full Story

News Type Size: A A A Print Email Most Popular Digg this by Erin Kelly - Jun. 2, 2011 12:00 AM Gannett Washington Bureau NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - Fourteen-year-old Mitchell Behling of Gilbert said his stomach began aching as he stood in front of news cameras and spectators and twice took his turn at the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee. "It's pretty intense," said Mitchell, an eighth-grader at Hamilton Preparatory Academy in Chandler. "You have to remember to breathe...Read Full Story

The trophy for the 2012 National Spelling Bee sits on stage before the start of the second round, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Oxon Hill, Md. Snigdha Nandipatithe 14-year-old from San Diego spelled “guetapens,” a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap, to win the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. She beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition.After she spelled the word, she looked from side to side, as if unsure her...Read Full Story

Scripps may be futzing with the competition rules, but they're not hornswoggling anyone: if you like words, you love their meaningThis week, Scripps announced a change to the way that the National Spelling Bee would be conducted. Starting this year, contestants will not only need to spell their way through the preliminary rounds and pass a computer-based spelling test, but they will also need to pass a multiple-choice vocabulary test in order to advance to the later rounds of the Bee. Paige...Read Full Story