Some of these expressions are easy to understand. The words create a picture in your mind. "As easy as falling off a log" is one such expression. ... For example, you might hear a student say to her ...

OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - Youthful contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee reacted with a combination of shock and awe to some of the words they were assigned as the annual competition ...

One of the words was so tough you could say it was radioactive. By Eve Washington Josh Katz and Tom Giratikanon Note: If you plan to play Spelling Bee’s Past Puzzles from the last week, this ...

Youthful contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee reacted with a combination of shock and awe to some of the words they were assigned as the annual competition began on Wednesday. Jeremy ...

10 Hardest Spelling Bee Words, Sept. 30-Oct. 6. Share of players finding each word. As of 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Oct. 6, based on players who use Spelling Bee Buddy. By The New York Times.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee round one preliminaries began Wednesday morning in Washington D.C., and the vast majority of spellers breezed through the opening round -- which features much ...

The winning word in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night was, as it turned out, “knaidel,” a Jewish version of a dumpling.The boy who got it right — on his fourth ...

How well can you fare without autocorrect, relying purely on your mastery of the English language? Keep reading to test your knowledge of these 30 simple words that are often misspelled.

For example, if you are teaching about plants, extract words which the learners can practice and establish a connection instead of cramming a block of words, whose origin they do not know.