Nathan Settevendemie, from Mabelle B. Avery Middle School, won the West Hartford competition, advancing to the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Noah Webster has this in common with Samuel Johnson ... long after the first American spelling-book shall have fulfilled its mission, the ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

There wasn’t a single person or group that decided how to spell our words, but the most significant influence on modern English spelling came from Noah Webster. His dictionaries standardized ...

We speak it, we read it, we write it … and we know doodle-squat about it. And more’s the pity when it comes to English, because I find its length and breadth fascinating. For one thing, if English ...

V. B. Brown taught him. In the night school, Jackson learned lessons from Noah Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book. The book, first printed in 1783, was used by many African Americans who wanted ...