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minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·16 days agoSpell ‘rigged’, as in “this competition is rigged”. Spell ‘whether’, as in “I don’t know whether the weather will be fine today”. Spell ‘intransigence’, as in “the little girl’s intransigence cost her the college of her choice”.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·16 days agoThe ‘whether’ part is really evil.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·15 days agoIt’s from The Simpons. Lisa and the Spelling Bee.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 days agoThanks for embiggening me.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 days agoI remember watching that episode as a kid in Ukrainian dub and being very confused because we don’t have nearly as many fucked up spelling cases to warrant an entire competition just for that.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 days agoI don’t get it either, we don’t do them where I live either. Do any other counties have spelling bees to the same degrees as the USA?
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 days agoI think it’s only the US. In other countries spelling is a thing you are expected to be able to do it, not something you get a trophy for.
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoOther languages are spelled the way they sound.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoMany, yes, but there are other english speaking countries too, and still the US is the only one with wide-spread spelling competitions.
Spell ‘rigged’, as in “this competition is rigged”.
Spell ‘whether’, as in “I don’t know whether the weather will be fine today”.
Spell ‘intransigence’, as in “the little girl’s intransigence cost her the college of her choice”.
The ‘whether’ part is really evil.
It’s from The Simpons. Lisa and the Spelling Bee.
“YOU’RE an idiom!”
Cromulent
Thanks for embiggening me.
I remember watching that episode as a kid in Ukrainian dub and being very confused because we don’t have nearly as many fucked up spelling cases to warrant an entire competition just for that.
I don’t get it either, we don’t do them where I live either.
Do any other counties have spelling bees to the same degrees as the USA?
I think it’s only the US. In other countries spelling is a thing you are expected to be able to do it, not something you get a trophy for.
Other languages are spelled the way they sound.
Many, yes, but there are other english speaking countries too, and still the US is the only one with wide-spread spelling competitions.