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  • May 28, 2015
    Winners of the Yoknapatawpha County Spelling Bee, 1929-1940
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    Sentences That, If Used by Judges in a Spelling Bee, Would Prove Totally Unhelpful to Contestants Attempting to Derive the Meaning of the Word
    by Jack Schneider and Moses Rifkin
  • October 20, 2004
    Bands and Musicians Whose Careers Would Be Quite Different Had They Initially Misspelled Their Own Names
    by Chuck Whittington
  • November 5, 2003
    McSweeney’s Brain Exploder: An Errant Spelling Production
    by Carlton Doby
  • July 15, 2002
    Actual Misspellings of My Name by the Chinese Restaurant I Call for Pick-Up
    by Cody Clarke
  • April 2, 2002
    Nineteen Suggestions by Dictionary.com When I Misspelled “Penguin.”
    by Stefan Gruber
  • February 18, 2002
    Variations on the Spelling of ‘Vehicles,’ Submitted By My 6th Graders Attempting to Earn Extra Credit on a Weekly Spelling Test
    by Andre Theisen
  • December 10, 2001
    Spell-check’s Suggested Replacements for My Last Name
    by Jill Gerber
  • January 9, 2001
    Spelling Words With “K.”
    by Erik Kraft
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