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Spelling Bees
Mar
20
2019
Do other countries need to have spelling bees? Specifically, non-English-speaking countries.
I took Spanish in high school, and I have some experience with German. It seems that other languages have much more consistent spelling and pronunciation rules for their languages.
What would be the point of a spelling bee in a sensible language? If you can pronounce the word, you can spell it. Unlike English, where one pronunciation can have 3 different spellings, or one spelling can have 3 different pronunciations, and not much is consistent.
Even better is a language like Chinese, which has characters for each word (generally). I imagine a Chinese spelling bee to be something like this:
Judge: Spell ‘boat’
Kid: Symbol for ‘boat’
Judge: Very good.
So he sent letters to all the king’s provinces, to each province according to its script and to every people according to their language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who speaks in the language of his own people.
Esther 1:22
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