Decoding English from spoken to spelled is a tradition that’s almost 100 years old at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but how did the language get so convoluted in the first place?

If you combine the letters into a word, how does jay-peg for JPEG make sense as opposed to juh-peg? If GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, does the ‘Graphics’ portion of the phrase ...

Dow found 105 words in the corpus that had "gi" somewhere in their spelling, not counting variations on the same word, like gift/gifts or geography/geographical.

Spelling Bee contestant Gokul Venkatachalam loves LeBron James and shows it by doing the Heat star's signature chalk toss with glitter.

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year ...

Students compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling words that could make one’s head spin (“weissnichtwo” and “cabotinage,” to name a couple). But it doesn’t take ...

A fun and clever dessert presentation that turns two simple letters into a playful candy-themed creation. Perfect for parties ...

Dev Shah is a ninth-grader living in Largo, Fla. He won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June. I never expected to win. I had lost more than two dozen spelling bees since I started competing ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee brings the best spellers from all over the United States and its territories together in a tournament that starts with 281 contestants and ends with one champion.

Corcoran proposed using 14 love letters he wrote Geralis over the course of three years. The letters secretly spell out 'will you marry me' when arranged properly.

You couldn't appreciate the fleeting moments of joy at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday without enduring the long stretches of child torture. Here are some of the ...