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Encyclopedia Britannica



SPELLING BEE

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 634 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
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
  Britain, enjoying for a few years an extraordinary vogue, not only in schools, but in all classes and ages of society. In the United States inter-
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
  or
play
  originated in America in colonial times, and was taken from the labour of the bees of a hive.
Familiar
  examples of it are husking-bee and quilting-bee, assemblages of villagers for the purpose of helping a
neighbour
  with the husking of the corn or his wife with her
quilt
 -making.


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