The Scripps National Spelling Bee dates to 1925
Its winning words send students deep into Latin, Greek, and the long history of English spelling.
AI is going multimodal
The newest systems handle text, images, audio, and video together, rather than one kind of input at a time.
A daily word puzzle is real brain exercise
Short, regular word challenges keep vocabulary sharp and give your memory a friendly daily workout.
The Oxford English Dictionary tracks 600,000+ words
It adds hundreds of new words a year -- from 'doomscrolling' to 'touch grass' -- a living record of how we speak.
The Rubik's Cube has 43 quintillion arrangements
Yet any scramble can be solved in 20 moves or fewer -- a limit mathematicians nicknamed 'God's number.'
The 'Buffalo' sentence really is grammatical
'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a valid English sentence -- a beloved linguistic brain-teaser.
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