From the White House to National Spelling Bees, the BTS members had a very eventful week back in June 2022. Your browser does not support video. Though the members didn’t appear in person at the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee, J-Hope‘s name still made a hilarious and unexpected cameo when the word “Tyrolienne” was presented to then-14-year-old […]
Why is SRBIJA on Serbia's jersey? Explaining basketball team's uniform spelling in 2024 Olympics
NBA superstar Nikola Jokic led his country past Australia in a thriller in the Olympic quarterfinals. Serbia trailed by as much as 24 points before mounting a comeback and finishing the job in overtime. Now, Jokic and Serbia will take on Team USA for the third time this summer and the second time in this […]
IVE’s Leeseo Gets Criticized For Poor Korean Spelling
A post criticizing IVE Leeseo‘s poor Korean spelling has gone viral on an online community, with over 200,000 views. The post included a couple of instances where Leeseo has made spelling errors for simple words in her native language, Korean. In South Korea, spelling is incredibly important due to the simple Hangul system, where a […]
How to watch Scripps National Spelling Bee: Full TV schedule, channels, free live streams for 2024 competition
The country’s most anticipated academic competition is set to take place once again this week as the smartest students from across America meet in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Last year, Florida native Dev Shah came out on top, winning on the word “psammophile.” He made it through words such as “aegagrus,” “rommack,” and “tolsester” […]
Why is AI so bad at spelling? Because image generators aren’t actually reading text
AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out faster than you can say diffusion. For all the advancements we’ve seen in AI, it still can’t spell. If you ask text-to-image […]