Curiosities: the spelling bees contests

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Why is English so difficult for Spaniards? One of the main reasons is the poor relationship between pronunciation and writing. We are used to a language that is read as it is written and finding that this relationship is not true in English makes us make mistakes both when writing and when pronouncing.




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But this peculiarity has made possible the emergence of some very spain phone number list contests in the United States that are completely unknown to us Spaniards: the spelling bees.

What are spelling bees?
A spelling bee is a contest in which participants must spell a series of words of varying difficulty. The exact date when they began is not known, but references to such contests have been found in documents dating back to 1808.

The most popular is the Scripps National Spelling Bee, held annually in the United States. It is attended by students under the age of 15 from all over the country and from abroad. The first edition took place in 1925. Since then it has grown in size and popularity. Since 2006, the finals have been broadcast live on television.

The ten most difficult words of the spelling bees
“If you’re getting kids under 15, it can’t be that hard… right?” Spelling bees combine easy words with much more difficult ones, and the hardest ones would make not only most English learners but many native speakers want to cry, too. But because English and Spanish pronunciation are so different, some of the words that are nearly impossible for them are pretty intuitive to us. Here are the 10 most difficult words that won the Scripps National Spelling Bee , according to Business Insider: