"A spokesperson for the Scripps National Spelling Bee told TNND all of the words used in its program are pulled from the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, which is its official dictionary ...

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The 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee featured a word of Jewish origin. Hannah Citsay, a student at St. Anne Catholic School in Lancaster, PA, correctly spelled “hesped,” the Hebrew word for ...