Culturebox: How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee?

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culturebox How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee? Take our test and find out. By Nina Shen Rastogi Posted Friday, June 3, 2011, at 11:21 AM ET Last night, Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania, won the 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling cymotrichous, a Greek-descended word meaning "having wavy hair." Are your orthographic skills better than an eighth grader's? Try our mock spelling bee and find out. Each word in the quiz below won some lucky kid the grand prize in a past bee. Click on the audio player to hear the word pronounced. Need a hint? Click and drag your cursor over the [bracketed] area to reveal the word's part of speech, definition, use in a sentence, language of origin, and, finally, its spelling. To continue reading, click here. Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Saletan: How Dr. Kevorkian's Ideas Helped Me Think About My Father's Death How Would You Have Done in the National Spelling Bee? Take Our Quiz. I'm Rooting for LeBron James, and I'm Not Ashamed To Admit It	Advertisement
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