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Bee in my bonnet

In my profession, we’re serious about spelling

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Lisa Davis
May 30, 2025
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A scene from the 2006 movie “Akeelah and the Bee”

This is the 100th year of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and to celebrate I’m going to try to spell all the words in this column correctly. If there are any mispellings, it’s definately on purpose.

The first edition of the National Spelling Bee was held in 1925, organized by the Courier-Journal newspap…

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