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May 30 2007 12:00am EDT

The Ancient Sport of Spelling

The 80th National Scripps Spelling Bee starts today, amid the dawn of an era when spelling increasingly doesn't matter. Just hit "spell check" before sending or printing.

Spelling is one of those things that everyone used to have to be good at, but in the future only people who do it for sport will be good at it. Like horseback riding. Or shooting. The Scripps Spelling Bee will eventually become the intellectual equivalent of the biathlon.

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