AP: Spelling Bee protesters

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> Two old Web of Language posts (from 2007) on the Spelling Bee protests:
>
> Bee Season: The annual Spelling Bee brings out protestors as well as
> nerds:
>
> http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/2052?count=3D1&ACTION=3DDIALOG
>
> Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet,
> should it count anywhere else?
>
> http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/2064?count=3D1&ACTION=3DDIALOG

Further discussion by David Wolman, author of "Righting the Mother
Tongue" (2008):

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/1610/
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/1617/


--Ben Zimmer

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