Making more spelling mistakes lately may be more than fatigue or distraction. Research in early stages of dementia, ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27. And, the organization has said it is dialing back its reliance on the high-pressure tiebreaker round known as the “spell-off,” ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...

To say I'm a hot sleeper is an understatement. My husband aptly describes me as a “human furnace” — at some point between midnight and 3 a.m., my body temperature skyrockets, sabotaging my ability to ...

Confident about your local knowledge? You can test your Brooklyn-specific skills with a spelling bee at the Center for Brooklyn History. The inaugural event on Tuesday, July 1 will quiz attendees on ...

Police Minister Stephen Mullighan on Thursday told state parliament the testing had been abolished so more young people could be accepted into the Police Academy. “I’m advised that the spelling and ...

SA’s Police Minister confirms SAPOL has dropped key cadet tests “to not knock back” as many young applicants and boost recruitment. Police Minister Stephen Mullighan on Thursday told state parliament ...

San Diego left fielder Gavin Sheets said Monday that he passed all concussion tests following a hard face-first collision with the wall during the Padres' Sunday home game against the Pittsburgh ...

And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...

Do you think you have what it takes to compete with these Scripps Spelling Bee whizzes? Can you spell the word, pronounced ə-ˈkim-bō , that describes the gesture of having a hand on a hip with the ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Before he was asked to spell “elucubrate,” Jacques Bailly had never ...

Information booklets about the test, which will be sat by about 90,000 students, were sent out to schools this week, but the cover letter with information for staff was incorrect. The Victorian ...