Comments on: Building the Ultimate Spelling Bee http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/spelling_bee/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gregory Dyke http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/spelling_bee/comment-page-1/#comment-148181 Gregory Dyke Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:15:05 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2254#comment-148181 Unfortunately, it is very difficult for non american-english speakers to figure out how unknown words are spelt. The female voice, in particular is completely obscure to me. I discovered the word "indocile" today. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for non american-english speakers to figure out how unknown words are spelt. The female voice, in particular is completely obscure to me. I discovered the word “indocile” today.

]]> By: Etl World News | VISUAL THESAURUS SPELLING BEE. http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/spelling_bee/comment-page-1/#comment-147808 Etl World News | VISUAL THESAURUS SPELLING BEE. Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:50:35 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2254#comment-147808 [...] Ben Zimmer comes news of a neat offshoot of his Visual Thesaurus: When we launched the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee this [...] [...] Ben Zimmer comes news of a neat offshoot of his Visual Thesaurus: When we launched the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee this [...]

]]> By: Bill Root http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/spelling_bee/comment-page-1/#comment-147796 Bill Root Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:17:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2254#comment-147796 Friends, Please check out this web site for another great word play experience: http://www.espindle.org/wordcup/index_new.php Spelling is important but proper word usage is arguably more important and certainly very useful. Bill Friends,
Please check out this web site for another great word play experience:
http://www.espindle.org/wordcup/index_new.php

Spelling is important but proper word usage is arguably more important and certainly very useful. Bill

]]> By: Virtual Linguist http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/spelling_bee/comment-page-1/#comment-147795 Virtual Linguist Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:31:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2254#comment-147795 So, the first ever national Spelling Bee in Great Britain, eh? In that case, that will mean a slight tweaking of this article: ...the Oxford dictionary programme... ...the more words that are spelt correctly... ...words are being continuously reanalysed... So, the first ever national Spelling Bee in Great Britain, eh? In that case, that will mean a slight tweaking of this article:
…the Oxford dictionary programme…
…the more words that are spelt correctly…
…words are being continuously reanalysed…

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