In the past 25 years, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and the occasional grousing older brother or sister have increasingly accompanied children on tricycles, bicycles, scooters, foot or in ...

t With words like “thermometer” on the list of words to learn to spell (for a first grader!), spelling is a daily drill in our house. I was trying to think of a way to keep the monotony at bay and ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

Words he'd never heard before and sometimes mangled, despite phonetic pronunciation clues. "People will stop me pretty regularly and say, 'That spelling bee is awesome.' It's fun because you have such ...

In the day and age that we live in, proper English spelling and grammar seem to have taken a backseat for students. With internet lingo and texting ruling the hearts and minds of youngsters, learning ...

How can you make a spelling bee into a musical? For the next several weeks, UA musical theater students are showing audiences that one small competition can turn into an explosion of comical satire, ...

Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard some of these funny words before. Are you one of those people who still giggle when someone says “duty”? Wait ...

It goes without saying that the ability to spell words correctly is definitely as much of a skill, as are reading and writing. At first glance, it does seem as if learning to spell and becoming a wiz ...