dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Who remembers spelling bees.
It was big in the US and here in the 50’s and 60’s.
It was on the Radio and TV (not so much) back then

I never took part in one but I’m sort of aware that such things took place.

“our faux fonetik alphabetic system is so bad that we need competitions testing kids’ abilities to rote all the exceptions they wrote”