"Their place at the table," reads the headline of a front-page article on yesterday's Suffolk Times, a newspaper serving the north fork of Long Island. Nothing about that phrase or the article accompanying it is visibly amiss, but one eagle-eyed reader called in to complain anyway. "Do you think that's the correct…
Jacob Williamson, 15, of Cape Coral, Florida was eliminated from the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday evening after misspelling "kabaragoya." But not before prematurely celebrating what he assumed would be his correct spelling of the word.
Looks like the early morning crew at Fox & Friends could use a copy editor.
On Thursday, 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word "knaidel," a Yiddish word meaning a matzoh ball or dumpling put into soup.
A man in Salem, Oregon took his obsession with correct spelling slightly too far on Wednesday morning when he threatened to blow up a government building's sign because a word was misspelled on it.
Scripps National Spelling Bee, America's annual tribute to idiocy in which do-nothing burnouts from around the country speak random letters into a microphone in the hopes that perhaps some of them will spell a word, is finally making an attempt to better itself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a blog post up about Lupe Fiasco's anti-Obama rant with the headline, "My President is Whack." Though we hold Ta-Nehisi Coates in high esteem, we must interject here: no, My President Is Wack.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee reaches its dramatic conclusion tonight as a group of nine middle schoolers meet in the nation's harbor (National Harbor, Maryland, or, as it is consistently and vaguely identified on the Scripps website, "near Washington, D.C.") to brawl to the death until only one remains.
The Associated Press profile of future President of the Milky Way Galaxy Lori Anne Madison who, at 6 years old, is the youngest person ever to gain entrance into the Scripps National Spelling Bee, is charming in that it finds her bounding around a nature preserve in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. searching for…
In your sunny Monday media column: Reader's Digest is for sale (and maybe Wenner Media too?), a theory of typos, a horrific penalty for insulting Fox News, and your Immediately Discarded Rupert Murdoch Theory of the Day.
"Cymotrichous" is defined as "having wavy hair." But for 14-year-old Sukanya Roy—the winner of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, which just wrapped up outside Washington, DC—it means $25,000 cash, a $5,000 scholarship, a $2,500 bond, a Barnes & Noble Nook, and the title of the best middle school speller in…
A tipster sent in one of the above photos of Georgetown University's thick commencement book, which cleverly doubles as a last-minute spelling test. We're not, obviously, in a great position to criticize the typographical errors of others; on the other hand, we're not an accredited institution of higher learning. […
Wonkette, which busted the shocking story of Sarah Palin's secret Facebook account wide open last week, has another installment in its investigative series on Palin's hamfisted attempts to establish fake private social media accounts: She has a private Twitter. And it's named @mckinely777, after America's tallest…
Yesterday, Gawker looked at Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi's many moments in fashion. Today, we examine the many spelling variations there are for Qadafi's name. As a bonus, this guide comes with a catchy little dance beat.
"Christmass" is currently a trending topic on Twitter. This means hundreds of thousands of people are tweeting about "Christmass." Maybe they're all talking about the 2006 Frank Black album?
14 year-old Anamika Veeramani won the Scripps National Spelling bee yesterday after correctly spelling "Stromuhr." Definition: "An instrument for measuring the flow of viscous substances." She'll now enter the lucrative Professional Spelling League, signing with the Chicago Dictionary Destroyers. [CNN]
The WSJ mocked a headline in the Toledo Blade: Luckey Teen Wins Blade Spelling Bee. "He's luckey," the paper said, "the blade can't spell any better than he can." Except Luckey is the name of the town he's from. [HuffPo]
Hee haw: Leading grammarian Sean Hannity made fun of Martha Coakley's campaign for misspelling "Massachusetts" in an ad, just after Hannity's show misspelled John McCormack's name. Hannity should have been lecturing McCormack on how to properly nut-punch someone.
Rush Limbaugh recently accused MSNBC of "trying to build its ratings on [his] back"—they could build a 747 on your back, Rush!—and TVNewser points out that Rush's name came up 39 times on the network yesterday. But they still can't spell it.
Todd offered Bristol a new ride to get her to dump Levi, Spencer Pratt is the "King of Weed," Paris Hilton thinks that The Hills is "so lame and fake," Kate Hudson is traveling with the Yankees to bone A-Rod, and Susan Boyle may be institutionalized very shortly.
