National Spelling Bee, in full Scripps National Spelling Bee; formerly (until 2004) Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, spelling bee held annually in the Washington, D.C., area that serves as the culmination of a series of local and regional bees contested by students (mostly American) in grades below the high-school level. It is administered on a not-for-profit basis by the E.W. Scripps Company as an educational promotion. Although a nationwide spelling competition for children had been contested in 1908 under the auspices of the National Education Association, the idea was not revisited until 1925. In that year the Louisville Courier-Journal, the
So much has changed in our world since 1925, when Frank Neuhauser correctly spelled “gladiolus,” and 2022, when Harini Logan won in a spell off, to become,
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