Oddly Enough Spelling Bee: Why English is so hard to spell Posted
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? Lucy Ha has more.
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