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One could argue the plain meaning of the legislation by spelling it out in English, represents an intent to have it be government sponsored speech with a specific message they want to convey, on the other hand, it could be argued that the law is vague in that it does not identify that it could NOT be written in other languages. – Lynn King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Harini has been to hell and back with her spelling bee experiences. – Harini Logan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think honestly so surreal, it's my fourth time at Spelling Bee, this is such a dream, this is my fourth bee and I'm just so overwhelmed. – Harini Logan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If nothing is really nothing, but has a spelling from alphabets. Alphabet is a body of letters (something) Then that means nothing is not really nothing Coz it has spelling from alphabets and alphabets is something. (Nothing is something) – Niliflash	added by ValidVibes 2 years ago
'Donald Trump's the smart one — and y'all elitists are dumb!' 'You elitists with your geography and your maps- and your spelling!'. – Rick Wilson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was almost 40, and bless Aaron Spelling because he chose me at my age instead of someone younger, and also Joan Collins at her age. He took a chance on two so-called older women. It was an absolute dream come true. – Linda Evans	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Shes a wonderful person, shes providing for her family. But Tori Spelling always, always gets the haters and gets dragged, and this is the other thing -- it used to be cancel culture, now its drag culture and this has to stop, too. You have to stop dragging people. – Dean McDermot	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It was hot and edgy, and because, [ creator ] Aaron [ Spelling ] insisted on some bikinis, occasionally sexy clothes, everybody just decided to write it off and let's face it, it wasn't Shakespeare, but it was definitely something the whole family could watch together all for different reasons. – Cheryl Ladd	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The spelling bee recycles words, so its really predictable. Theres really no reason to recycle words. – Scott Remer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm just so proud of him, it's hard as a mama. I don't want to make him hate spelling. – Brody Krause	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Its why there are spelling bees in English and no other language. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
First or not, just to have your kid in the spelling bee is pretty exciting. – Balu Natarajan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can get frustrated, tired, exhausted, i needed someone to tell me : This is just a spelling bee. – Sameer Mishra	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It bears the same relationship to regular spelling as riding a BMX bike does to riding a bike in the street. – Geoffrey Nunberg	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Now it has brinkmanship, and things you wouldn't see before - an 8-year-old spelling a German or polysyllabic word that I've never heard of. – Nupur Lala	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
She is very bright, we were amazed to find that she really has a knack for spelling. – Annie Fuller	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The fiscal year 2016 funds have not been obligated because the State Department has not yet submitted a detailed plan as required by law, spelling out how, where and by whom the funds will be used, what their objectives are and how they will measure progress. – Tim Rieser	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
By introducing these reforms the government is certainly spelling out why India is an attractive destination. – Nalin Kohli	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, Brazilian support is crucial if the world is going to call time on the age of fossil fuels in Paris, now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this. – Iain Keith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, Brazilian support is crucial if the world is going to call time on the age of fossil fuels in Paris, now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this. – Iain Keith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this. – Iain Keith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And this is where some of the confusion comes in. Allowing your first-grader to fail a spelling test because they did study is much easier for a parent to deal with than allowing your eight-grader to fail science because he chose not to study and will have to repeat the class over the summer. – Vicki Hoefle	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "gj" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. – Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. – Alan Alexander Milne	added by anonymous 14 years ago

One could argue the plain meaning of the legislation by spelling it out in English, represents an intent to have it be government sponsored speech with a specific message they want to convey, on the other hand, it could be argued that the law is vague in that it does not identify that it could NOT be written in other languages.

– Lynn King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Harini has been to hell and back with her spelling bee experiences.

– Harini Logan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think honestly so surreal, it's my fourth time at Spelling Bee, this is such a dream, this is my fourth bee and I'm just so overwhelmed.

– Harini Logan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If nothing is really nothing, but has a spelling from alphabets. Alphabet is a body of letters (something) Then that means nothing is not really nothing Coz it has spelling from alphabets and alphabets is something. (Nothing is something)

– Niliflash

added by ValidVibes
2 years ago

'Donald Trump's the smart one — and y'all elitists are dumb!' 'You elitists with your geography and your maps- and your spelling!'.

– Rick Wilson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was almost 40, and bless Aaron Spelling because he chose me at my age instead of someone younger, and also Joan Collins at her age. He took a chance on two so-called older women. It was an absolute dream come true.

– Linda Evans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Shes a wonderful person, shes providing for her family. But Tori Spelling always, always gets the haters and gets dragged, and this is the other thing -- it used to be cancel culture, now its drag culture and this has to stop, too. You have to stop dragging people.

– Dean McDermot

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It was hot and edgy, and because, [ creator ] Aaron [ Spelling ] insisted on some bikinis, occasionally sexy clothes, everybody just decided to write it off and let's face it, it wasn't Shakespeare, but it was definitely something the whole family could watch together all for different reasons.

– Cheryl Ladd

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The spelling bee recycles words, so its really predictable. Theres really no reason to recycle words.

– Scott Remer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'm just so proud of him, it's hard as a mama. I don't want to make him hate spelling.

– Brody Krause

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Its why there are spelling bees in English and no other language.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

First or not, just to have your kid in the spelling bee is pretty exciting.

– Balu Natarajan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You can get frustrated, tired, exhausted, i needed someone to tell me : This is just a spelling bee.

– Sameer Mishra

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It bears the same relationship to regular spelling as riding a BMX bike does to riding a bike in the street.

– Geoffrey Nunberg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Now it has brinkmanship, and things you wouldn't see before - an 8-year-old spelling a German or polysyllabic word that I've never heard of.

– Nupur Lala

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

She is very bright, we were amazed to find that she really has a knack for spelling.

– Annie Fuller

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The fiscal year 2016 funds have not been obligated because the State Department has not yet submitted a detailed plan as required by law, spelling out how, where and by whom the funds will be used, what their objectives are and how they will measure progress.

– Tim Rieser

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

By introducing these reforms the government is certainly spelling out why India is an attractive destination.

– Nalin Kohli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, Brazilian support is crucial if the world is going to call time on the age of fossil fuels in Paris, now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this.

– Iain Keith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, Brazilian support is crucial if the world is going to call time on the age of fossil fuels in Paris, now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this.

– Iain Keith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this.

– Iain Keith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And this is where some of the confusion comes in. Allowing your first-grader to fail a spelling test because they did study is much easier for a parent to deal with than allowing your eight-grader to fail science because he chose not to study and will have to repeat the class over the summer.

– Vicki Hoefle

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "gj" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

– Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

– Alan Alexander Milne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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