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June 2nd, 2008 8: 06 pm ET try again ... spellin 'glitch.

Cheney apologizes to West Virginians for inbreeding joke 2008

The next night and the "spellin'-bee" at school No. 5 came on apace together.

The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897

I suppose we shall have some old fogey now who will preach against dancin 'an' spellin'-bees an 'surprise-parties.

Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris 1893

I suppose we shall have some old fogey now who will preach against dancin 'an' spellin'-bees an 'surprise-parties.

A Modern Idyll Frank Harris 1893

Well, I reckon mabbe folks don't scurry around here quite so lively as they do in some of the bigger towns like Noo York, but there's a tolerable lot goin 'on most every week, church festivals, an' spellin 'bees, an' such.

The Miracle Man 1909

But, puttin 'spellin' aside, that's just why I've come to you.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

They played together, they lived together; together they tended deestrick school an 'went huckleberryin'; there wuz huskin's an 'spellin' bees an 'choir meetin's an' skatin 'an' slidin 'down-hill -- oh, the happy times uv youth! an' all those times our boy Cyrus an 'their leetle Lizzie went lovin'ly together!

Second Book of Tales Eugene Field 1872

Graeme-Graham -- jist twa w'ys o 'spellin' the name putten thegither.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

"Then why doesn't tha, read somethin ', or learn a bit o' spellin '?

The Secret Garden 1911

"Then why doesn't tha, read somethin ', or learn a bit o' spellin '?

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911