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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE |
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SPELLING BEE , a match in which two sides contest in accuracy of spelling. The custom, an old one, was revived in the schools of the United States about the year 1873, and rapidly spread throughout the country and to Great
city and inter-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 side having the greatest number of survivors at the close . The use of the word " bee " as an assemblage of persons for the purpose of joint work
play
Familiar
neighbour with the husking of the corn or his wife with her quilt
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