Kobe Bryant memorial riddled with spelling errors to be repaired after more than a month of ridicule from fans (DEI at work)
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Blaze Media ^
| 3/14/2024 | Andrew Chapados
The Los Angeles Lakers have finally announced that they will correct errors on the Kobe Bryant "Black Mamba" memorial statue outside Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the team announced.
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TAT'S AWKWARD - The world’s worst tattoo spelling fails revealed
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U.S. Sun ^
| 09/20/2023 | Sarah Arnold
MODEL Cara Delevingne is far from the first to suffer an awkward tattoo blunder. We
told this week how a misspelled design on the 31-year-old’s arm features the word “walking” instead of “waking”. And spelling isn’t always tattoo artists’ strong point, as Sarah Arnold reveals with these cringe-worthy pictures.
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Israel shares dossier spelling out allegations against 12 UN employees allegedly involved in Hamas attack
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Fox News via MSN ^
| 1/29/24 | Lawrence Richard
Israel has provided the Biden administration with a new dossier with information about how staffers for a United Nations agency assisted or supported the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, Fox News has learned. The
dossier specifically alleges that 12 employees who worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) aided in different capacities. According to the dossier, seven UN staffers crossed into Israel on Oct. 7 while other were accused of "participating in a terror activity" or coordinating vehicle movements. The dossier alleged that some 190 employees of UNRWA in...
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Spelling Bee: Indian-Americans Dominate Finals of Top Spellers in US
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News 18 ^
| 2nd June 2023 | Rohit
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is set to crown a champion, with 11 finalists gathering Thursday night in a convention center ballroom outside Washington to demonstrate their mastery of Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary. The
bee has undergone many changes as a result of an eight-way tie in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which wiped it out a year later. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the skill and dedication of the top spellers in the English language. The typical workload for a top-level speller: 3-4 hours of studying each weekday, and more on the weekends. And yet they still...
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Meet Dev Shah, the 14-year-old who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with ‘psammophile’
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Associated Press via NBC News ^
| 06/02/2023
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Despondent is the right word,” Dev said.
“I just didn’t know if I wanted to keep continuing.” Look at him now. Soft-spoken but brimming with confidence, Dev asked precise questions about obscure Greek roots, rushed through his second-to-last word and rolled to the National Spelling Bee title Thursday night. Dev, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida,...
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Donald Trump is already attacking the judge handling his hush money case and spelling his name incorrectly
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Fortune ^
| March 31, 2023 | Patricia Hurtado, Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg
“This is going to be an enormous undertaking because of the nature of who the defendant is,” said Cyrus Vance Jr., the former Manhattan District Attorney who preceded current DA Alvin Bragg. “Trump has a history of being difficult to keep him and his organization on track,” Vance said. “It
is going to be a really big job.” That’s already evident. On his Truth Social platform Friday, Trump trashed the judge — New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan — claiming he “HATES ME” and spelling his name incorrectly in the process. “His name is Juan Manuel Marchan, was...
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Commentary: Why Does Turkey Want Other Countries to Start Spelling its Name Türkiye?
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Channel News Asia ^
| 19 Feb 2023 | Phillip M Carter
Why is Turkey now "Türkiye" and what does it matter? This
linguistics expert sheds insight.Is Türkiye’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story? In June 2022, the United Nations agreed to change the spelling of the country known in the English-speaking world as Turkey to Türkiye, heeding a request by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In January, the United States State Department also agreed to adopt the requested change in its written communications. A number of news outlets have reported that Türkiye has changed its name, but that’s not...
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Tori Spelling Hospitalized For Having Trouble Breathing
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Daily Caller ^
| December 22, 2022 6:08 PM ET | LEENA NASIR ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER
Former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Tori Spelling posted to her Instagram Stories on Dec. 21 letting fans know she’d been hospitalized after having difficulty breathing. Spelling’s
post doubled as both an update and a clap back at the haters who didn’t believe her when she said she was feeling unwell, according to US Weekly. “Here I am in [the] hospital since late last night,” Spelling wrote in the post. Instagram Stories expire 24 hours after being posted unless the user chooses to save the content. “To all of you who gas lit me when you were told I [was] too...
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EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Within Striking Distance in Deep-Blue Los Angeles District, Spelling Trouble for House Dems
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https://freebeacon.com ^
| SEP 27, 2022 | COLLIN ANDERSON
Republican congressional hopeful Matt Jacobs is within striking distance of his incumbent Democratic opponent in a deep-blue Los Angeles district, a revelation that could force the Democratic Party to spend a race they expected to win handily. Jacobs,
a former federal prosecutor, trails five-term congresswoman Julia Brownley (D., Calif.) by just 4.8 points in California's 26th Congressional District, a September OnMessage poll obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon shows. While President Joe Biden won that district by a whopping 25 points two years ago, independent voters have since soured on Democrats as Americans face record-high inflation. Jacobs, for example,...
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Spelling Bee Contestant Asks The Definition of “Woman”
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Youtube ^
| 16 June 2022 | Babylon Bee
Judges at a school spelling bee are stumped and infuriated when a child dares to ask them for a definition of the word “woman.”Video
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Why Kyiv instead of Kiev? How the BBC and UK government have adopted different spelling of capital
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Daily Mail ^
| 2/23/22 | Rory Tingle
Some observers have questioned the adoption by the BBC of the spelling Kyiv for the capital of Ukraine instead of Kiev, as Britons and Americans have traditionally referred to it.Many presenters are also using the accompanying pronunciation 'KEE-eve' rather than the previous 'KEE-yev', leaving some listeners confused.
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VIDEO: Joe Manchin Gives a Spelling Lesson
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YouTube ^
| October 21, 2021 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEOWatch Joe Manchin give a spelling lesson to a group of reporters. However,
I think he might have skipped the spelling of the second syllable of the word.
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Spelling change Proclamation Mandate:
Biden shall henceforth be spelled Bidet
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self | algore
The Anglo-Saxon name Biden comes from when its first bearer worked as a maker of buttons. The
surname Biden is a metonymic name derived from the Old French word boton, which means button. Alternatively, the name could have been derived from the Old English "bi" + "dun," collectively meaning "dweller by the down." Variations of the name Biden include Button, Bitton, Buttoner, Buton, Biton, Buttons, Boutin, Bouttin, Bouton, Boutton, Budden, Buddan, Boudin, Bouddin, Buttan, Buddon, Buddin, Butten, Buttin, Butting, Budding, Buttane and many more. I Mandate a new proper Spelling as the family has re imaged, and redefined itself for...
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Zaila Avant-garde becomes first African-American champion at National Spelling Bee
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Yahoo Sports ^
| July 8, 2021 | Jack Baer
Zaila Avant-garde is the new national spelling bee champion, but it's not the first time she's been on top of the world at something. The
14-year-old from New Orleans was named the winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, spelling words such as "querimonious," "ancistroid," "solidungulate." It was "Murraya," a genus of flowering citrus plants in Asia, that won Avant-garde the competition after runner-up Chaitra Thummala misspelled "neroli oil" in the 17th round. 13-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana is your 93rd Scripps National #SpellingBee champion ‼️ The first African-American winner of the competition 👏 pic.twitter.com/y2Y5dAGcVN — ESPN...
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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voter Restrictions, Spelling Trouble For DOJ Georgia ‘Voter Rights’ Lawsuit
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The Daily Wire ^
| July 1, 2021 | Emily Zanotti
The United States Supreme Court ruled, Thursday, that two “Republican-backed ballot restrictions” in the state of Arizona do not violate the Voter Rights Act of 1965, opening the door for voter restriction measures nationwide, and spelling trouble for the Department of Justice’s lawsuit, announced earlier this week, challenging new measures just passed
in Georgia.“The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed two Republican-backed ballot restrictions in Arizona that a lower court found had disproportionately burdened Black, Latino, and Native American voters, handing a defeat to voting rights advocates and Democrats who had challenged the measures,” Reuters reported. “The 6-3 ruling, with...
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Mitch McConnell’s home vandalized… Antifa dude fails at spelling…
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Citizen Free Press ^
| 2 Jan, 2021 | Kane
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Louisville home was vandalized early Saturday morning. Messages
like “where’s my money” and other expletives were written with spray paint across the front door and bricks of the Kentucky Republican’s Highlands residence. McConnell said in a statement Saturday morning that “I’ve spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest. I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not. This is different,” he continued. “Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society.” He...
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SPELLING IT OUT Thousands of witches plotting to cast ‘binding spell’ on Donald Trump on Halloween so he loses to Biden on election day
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The Sun ^
| 10/23/20 | Claudia Aoroha
THOUSANDS of witches are plotting to cast a "binding spell" on Donald Trump on Halloween, so that he loses the US election. The
mystic women believe that the two full moons this month have given them extra magical powers to kick Trump out of the White House. The witches are also celebrating the rare confluence of the two "powerful" moon events in October - in effort to get Joe Biden elected in November. According to social media, the mystic women are set to plot multiple "binding" events to attack the President on Halloween - in their biggest spiritual attack to...
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National Spelling Bee canceled for first time since 1945
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Associated Press ^
| April 21, 2020 | Ben Nuckols
There will be no fidgeting at the National Spelling Bee microphone, no banter with pronouncer Jacques Bailly, no pointed questions about definitions or languages of origin, no dreaded bell that signals a misspelled word. This
year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee was canceled Tuesday, the latest beloved public event to be scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic. The bee will return next year, Scripps said, but that’s little comfort to the eighth-graders who are missing out on their last shot at the national stage. Scripps will not change eligibility requirements for the next bee, which is scheduled for June 1-3, 2021....
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SPELLING CORRECTION
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Millennial becomes unhinged after boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’
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American Thinker ^
| August 15, 2019 | Selwyn Duke
Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who’ll insist their misspellings of words are correct. Just
yesterday I read an eyebrow-raising story about this that was quite timely, as I’d experienced millennial spelling moronity just the day prior. My case involved a leftist who emailed me with some deep, substantive criticism: He said I was “insane,” “nuttier than a fruitcake” and “f*****g” nuts.” I responded to him. While I generally don’t play the spelling Nazi, leftists’ characteristic superciliousness inspired me to mention to him, kindly, that he’d written “you’re” as “your” three...
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