| Show SPELLING MATCHES THE TUE the extensive and energetic revival of spelling matches in the east and the extension of the san sar same ae to tho the pacific slope is one of the noteworthy bits of current news and the following rules and regulations for a double match at lincoln hall washington D C between two classes of non professionals led by professors and two classes of professionals fessio nals the latter being between grammar school boys boya and girls and reporters readers etc may be interesting cal t the standard standard authority for spelling shall ahall be according to either webster or worcester 2 the speller shall have the right to ask the definition of a word before spelling and also to except to pronunciation the of a word if lie he borshe or she deems it lacking in authority th tho oriff rity ia 13 when a word is misspelled it shall shail not be again put in the same class but the schoolmaster shall give the correct corr act efell spelling ing lug to the audience 4 the referees shall hall decide all questions ns raised in case of disagreement gre ement emend the presiding officer shall decade 5 the first spell spelling Dg of a word by a contestant shall be but this rule shall not preclude the correction co rree of an error by a speller if discovered and corrected before the final syllable is spelled 6 the words selected for the contests shall exclude so faras far as possible all works of a technical medical ezi cyl er or purely scientific character geoga and proper names aud und shall be con eon confined to words in use in in general reading writing and speaking |
