Spelling Bee

[Mojo]

If you want to know why I've posted this in this forum, you'll have to read it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1538397,00.html

 

[Blue Bubble]

Hee hee ...

 

[Soapy Sam]

Why is a spelling bee so named?

 

[Mojo]

Why is a spelling bee so named?

It was the second attempt: the "spelling A," a competition in which contestants were told how a word was spelled and then asked to identify it, was abandoned during testing.

 

[Soapy Sam]

I should have known better than to ask a simple question in this madhouse.

Looks like nobody else knows either.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-spe2.htm

 

[clarsct]

Hmmm.

The American Indians, ask the American Indian Association how they prefer to be called, did not exactly lie. They were using the herb to bind wounds, not to cure colds.

Just a nitpick.