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SPELLING BEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPELLING See also:

BEE , a match in which two sides contest in accuracy of spelling. The See also:custom, an old one, was revived in the See also:schools of the See also:United States about the See also:year 1873, and rapidly spread throughout the See also:country and to See also:Great See also:Britain, enjoying for a few years an extraordinary See also:vogue, not only in schools, but in all classes and ages of society. In the United States inter-See also:city and inter-See also:state matches were not unknown. According to the generally recognized rules a competitor who misspelled a word retired, and the match was won by the See also:side having the greatest number of survivors at the See also:close. The use of the word " bee " as an assemblage of persons for the purpose of See also:joint See also:work or See also:play originated in See also:America in colonial times, and was taken from the labour of the bees of a hive. See also:Familiar examples of it are husking-bee and quilting-bee, assemblages of villagers for the purpose of helping a See also:neighbour with the husking of the See also:corn or his wife with her See also:quilt-making.

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