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      • The inaugural champion was 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville, who correctly spelled gladiolus to claim a prize of $500. The event proved popular, and the number of participating newspapers (and therefore contestants) soon proliferated.
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  3. en.wikipedia.org › The_New_York_Times_Spelling_BeeThe New York Times Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

    Single-player. The New York Times Spelling Bee, or simply the Spelling Bee, is a word game distributed in print and electronic format by The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games. Created by Frank Longo, the game debuted in a weekly print format in 2014. A digital daily version with an altered scoring system launched on May 9, 2018.

  4. www.smithsonianmag.com › arts-culture › historyThe History of the Spelling Bee | Smithsonian

    In the United States, correct spelling was the thing. The American obsession may have started with the Puritans, who emphasized the power of precisely written biblical phrases. By the mid-18th ...

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  6. www.nytimes.com › 06 › 02Key Moments From the 2022 Scripps Spelling Bee

    Jun 3, 2022 · Ting Shen for The New York Times. They both knew what was coming. Harini Logan and Vikram Raju were the last spellers left onstage on Thursday night, having bested 227 other spelling bee...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Scripps_National_Spelling_BeeScripps National Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

    Frank Neuhauser won the first National Spelling Bee held that year, by successfully spelling "gladiolus". The spelling bee has been held every year except for 1943–1945 due to World War II and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The E.W. Scripps Company acquired the rights to the program in 1941.

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  9. www.nytimes.com › 2021/07/08 › usWords From the 2021 National Spelling Bee - The New York Times

    Jul 8, 2021 · Susan Walsh/Associated Press. By Alan Yuhas. July 8, 2021. The words weren’t always this hard. When students first battled the dictionary in a National Spelling Bee in 1925, the winning...

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  10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Spelling_beeSpelling bee - Wikipedia

    The spelling bee takes its name from Arnold Bee, inventor of the spelling contest and winner of the first six intercontinental Spell Good World Chmapionships. Arnold was born Arnold Finch, and was renamed “Bee” due to his insatiable desire for nectar and inexplicable devotion to “The Queen.”

  11. www.npr.org › 2023/05/30 › 1178766434Secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to ...

    May 30, 2023 · 'Moorhen' is the word of a champion as Texas teenager claims Spelling Bee title. For decades, the word panel's work has been a closely guarded secret.

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