Shelby Township police banners hanging around town have an extra ‘e’ in the word department. City officials are taking the gaffe in stride good-naturedly. Sponsorship money from area ...

A Black Girl Won the 1908 Spelling Bee. Her Family Is Searching for Her Medal. At 14, ... To compete, students first took a written spelling test of 100 words.

Spelling bees usually provide study lists from which words will be selected, but she also uses other lists of words compiled together to create word sets. Each set has 500 words, she said.