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Pencils up for your spelling test today, class. Your first word is blorskee, as in, "I lost my blorskee at a carnival." Don't know what a blorskee is? Neither does anyone else because it's a made-up ...

Tia Geisler is proof that when it comes to being an elite speller, age doesn’t matter. It is all about the letters, not the numbers, for the 9-year-old fourth-grade champion from Orchard Hollow ...

Zachary Elementary School held its annual Spelling Bee for third- and fourth-graders Feb. 23-24. Each classroom held a spelling competition that had the top-spelling boys and girls advance to compete ...

DANVILLE — Ten year-old Anjali Agarwal is not known for making spelling errors in her fourth grade English class at Saint Joseph Catholic School in Danville. Agarwal is known for just the opposite and ...

ALBION — The annual Fourth Grade Spelling Bee took place April 11 at Albion Elementary School, with three students advancing on to the regional competition. Ben Nesbitt, Gianna Hyde and Paul Barie ...

Looking out over a Penn Brook School cafetorium filled to capacity with the families and friends of the third graders filling the stage Monday, Spelling Bee MC Starr Anderson has some advice. “Relax, ...

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FLUSHING, Michigan — Two fourth graders from Seymour Elementary were determined not to walk away from the spelling bee without a fight — so much so that they almost ran out of words. Jackson Mott, 10, ...

The correct spelling of “homage” brought the grand championship of the Northampton Area School District intermediate spelling bee to William Falstich, a fourth-grader at George Wolf School, Bath.