This year marks the 50th anniversary of Merriam-Webster's sponsorship of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
To celebrate, we've got some special plans and major prizes lined up for the 2007 competition to be held in
Washington D.C. at the end of this month. Visit our hive and learn more about this year's event, or take a turn at
our daily Spelling Quiz.
Get the buzz.
Can you identify the part of your brain that controls motor coordination? If so, you'll want to exercise it by
picking up a copy of the May–June issue of Mental Floss, the bi-monthly magazine "where knowledge junkies
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Visual Dictionary—copies of which will be awarded to ten lucky puzzle solvers. Get a head start and
floss your brain.
Are you a "palabraphile" who has "vocabulated" a "honeyism" or "macroleximorpheme" lately?
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Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary? If you're "confuddled,"
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The new Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary recently inspired the great words above—and quite a few others—from Kirkus Reviews.
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