{"id":86,"date":"2009-04-30T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-05-29T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:22:25","slug":"spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kansascity.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/05\/31\/spellingbee_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/spelling-bee-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spelling Bee\" title=\"Spelling Bee\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-143\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/spelling-bee-253x300.jpg 253w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/spelling-bee.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a stickler for correct spellings, so I&#8217;m pleased to see that in the UK, one of the major newspapers is running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesspellingbee.co.uk\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">spelling bee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m still recovering from losing a spelling contest at school after missing an &#8216;s&#8217; out of Mississippi, I can now confidently spell the word correctly at all times. Spelling is an important part of communicating, and whilst sometimes it&#8217;s a frustrating part of learning the English language (or any other language for that matter!), correct spelling is the standard for business communications.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;spelling bee&#8221; is an American one, and spelling competitions apparently are only regularly used in the English-speaking world. There&#8217;s a great documentary about spelling bees in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0334405\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">Spellbound <\/a>, which throws up some amazing words I&#8217;d never even heard of (although could still possibly spell).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly it appears that The Times spelling bee is only open to schools at the moment, but I&#8217;m sure it can&#8217;t be too long until a TV producer picks up on the idea and turns it in to a show for adults! Until then, you can play along online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a stickler for correct spellings, so I&#8217;m pleased to see that in the UK, one of the major newspapers is running a spelling bee. Although I&#8217;m still recovering from losing a spelling contest at school after missing an &#8216;s&#8217; out of Mississippi, I can now confidently spell the word correctly at all times. Spelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,44],"tags":[13,60],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-spelling","category-words","tag-spelling","tag-spelling-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}