Posted on 12/14/2024 7:42:50 AM PST by bitt
If your third-grader is competing in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, good news: “W-O-M-Y-N” is now an acceptable spelling of “women.” (What a time to be alive!)
In fact, “W-O-M-Y-N” is explicitly listed on the National Spelling Bee’s list of 50 “study words” that’s distributed to third-graders.
Nobody knows when spoken language began, but written language developed independently in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica. Presumably, shortly after the emergence of writing, was the emergence of the crotchety, ornery, spinster schoolteacher who’d shame you before the class when you misspelled a word.
And now, the proper spelling of women is “W-O-M-Y-N.”
The National Spelling Bee has disavowed any responsibility. According to them, all the words they used were taken directly from the Merrian-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Alas, after the Merrian-Webster’s Grammar Gestapos approved of “W-O-M-Y-N,” nothing more could be done.
The Language Lords have spoken. Here’s what a Spelling Bee spokesman told Fox News:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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Brought to you by the same people that claim 2+2 can equal 5
From the article:
“Very respectfully, that’s a steaming load of horse excrement.
(“Excrement: E-X-C-R-E-M-E-N-T. Excrement!” “Correct, thank you. We also would’ve accepted M-S-N-B-C.”)”
LOL!
“White”: “w h i t e; white”.
“Black”: “Capital B l a c k: Black”
Ding
Libs are insane.
Math Olympiads may soon accept the fact that 1 x 1 = 2.
Terence Howard says so.
And will ARE now be spelled R, as in Toys R Us. ?
That’s what happens when you allow far-left, commie turd rollers to take over anything and everything American. Same jackasses with the same “core values” as the maggots who would shoot somebody he doesn’t even know in the back.
HUH? I thought they changed to womxn.
Few people care about accurate spelling these days. It's a shame that attention to detail has devolved into carelessness and apathy.
Why don’t they just spell it “wimmin”????
its obvious intent is to advance our culture and language until we are all grunting in a dark cold cave arguing over maggot milk.
“min and wimmin”
“boiz and gurls”...
“katz and dawgs”...
… but they can’t define the term.
Oops...”gurlz”...
Or my favorite Popeye spelling ‘Wimmings’
I hope third graders are trolling and asking “Can you please give me the definition and origin of women?”.
By popular demand (and practice), the Free Republic Spelling Bee Governing Board has approved the complete interchangeability of:
1. There, their, their;
2. Your, you’re (but not yore);
3. It’s, its (and occasionally its’)
80% of the board failed to get the joke and asked what the point was.
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