Welcome, Bees!

Are you up for the challenge?

It's a real pleasure to welcome you all to our Spelling Bee Contest 2023 Blog. On this second version we are glad to deliver this useful blog, in which you will Bee able to study the contest words to Bee ready and steady.

Here you will find the pronunciation, spelling and phonetic transcription of the words to help you Bee more prepared and competitive than ever before. Take advantage of this enhancing resource and let us know if there is anything we could Bee helpful in.

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About the BEE

The word bee, as used in spelling bee, is one of those language puzzles that has never been satisfactorily accounted for. A fairly old and widely-used word, it refers to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors join together in a single activity (sewing, quilting, barn raising, etc.) usually to help one person or family.

The earliest known example in print is a spinning bee, in 1769. Other early occurrences are husking bee (1816), apple bee (1827), and logging bee (1836). Spelling bee is apparently an American term. It first appeared in print in 1875, but it seems certain that the word was used orally for several years before that.

References: A Dictionary of American English. Sir William A. Craigie and James R. Hulbert, eds. University of Chicago Press, 1944. A Dictionary of Americanisms. Mitford M. Matthews, ed. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951. Mencken, H.L. The American Language. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1938 (suppl. I, 1945: suppl. II, 1948).

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