Brittany Kasko is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.
Here’s how the test worked: For each of the words, we gave you the definition, the language of origin and an audio recording of the word being pronounced. You could either guess the spelling or give ...
Dave Caolo and I were chatting this morning about iBooks and spelling. "It's not my daughter's favorite subject," he said, "and I'm looking for a way to make it more appealing to her." He asked if ...
There are some words in English that are very tricky to spell, especially if English is not your mother tongue. For years, words like ‘through’, ‘thorough’, and ‘though’ have been causing headaches ...
Last night’s Scripps National Spelling Bee had two winners — Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe — who faced off until the Bee literally ran out of words. Congratulations to them both. Did any of those ...
If a timber giant is going to move its headquarters to downtown Seattle, we all better learn how to properly spell the company’s name. Of the more than 1,000 people who have taken our multiple-choice ...
With the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee underway this week, it is time to make sure that your orthographic skills are up to scratch. Take our quiz and see if you can define the words that were ...
The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...