Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the trickiest words to spell are "February", "definitely" and "mischievous", according to tests carried out by nearly a ...

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The recent article by Chronicle reporter Ericka Mellon about how schools are dropping weekly spelling tests in favor of teaching methods that focus less on memorization and more on understanding why ...

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to... Spelling Bee Pregame: Why Are Some Words So Hard?

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Hello, I'm Mrs. Hudson and we're going to find ways to remember those tricky spellings. There are so many words to spell. How can you remember all those spellings? Hmm, tricky! Luckily I have two top ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...