Edited by Veronica Chambers, Jennifer Harlan, Marcelle Hopkins and Dan Saltzstein. Produced by Alice Fang, Nicky Tesla, Andrew Herzog and Antonio de Luca. Together, they run Schoooool, a small, full-service creative studio that brings thoughtful perspectives to conceptual, practical and visual problems. She is the creator and host of the podcast " Sounds Like A Cult,” and her other writing has been published in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and more. Wok photograph by Sonny Figueroa/The New York Times.Īmanda Montell is the author of the nonfiction books “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism” and “Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language,” as well as “The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality,” forthcoming from OneSignal/Atria Books in early 2024. Homans, New American Encyclopedia of Social and Commercial Information (New York: P. Vulpix illustration from The Pokémon Company International.
#Nyt spelling bee forum answers today series
Each word will be revealed after a series of clues.
We’ve pulled 10 words from past Scripps Bee competitions or training lists.
(Last year’s winning word was “ moorhen” - a breed of water bird.)īut now, it’s your turn. (The New York Times reported that the first winner, the 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser, took home “a gold medal and $500 in gold.”) From May 30 to June 1, this year’s competitors will gather in Washington to spell words most people have never even heard of. It took a little time to figure out the best cluing angle, but this puzzle by Brian Thomas has always been a favorite, and we took some inspiration from it. “Extraordinary spellers have huge vocabularies, so they ‘know’ the exceptions.”Īnd what do you get when you combine this orthographical mishmash with a hypercompetitive culture? The spelling bee.īees originated in the United States in the 19th century, but the best-known is the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started in 1925.
This hodgepodge of influences is what makes English words so difficult to spell, said Penny Pexman, a psychology professor at the University of Calgary who studies Scrabble players. According to some estimates, nearly 80 percent of it consists of foreign loanwords - terms that have been borrowed from other languages. By Amanda Montell, Andrew Herzog and Nicky TeslaĮnglish is a bit of a pickpocket.
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