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The 'whether' part is really evil.
It's from The Simpons. Lisa and the Spelling Bee.
"YOU'RE an idiom!"
Cromulent
Thanks for embiggening me.
I remember watching that episode as a kid in Ukrainian dub and being very confused because we don't have nearly as many fucked up spelling cases to warrant an entire competition just for that.
I don't get it either, we don't do them where I live either.
Do any other counties have spelling bees to the same degrees as the USA?
I think it's only the US. In other countries spelling is a thing you are expected to be able to do it, not something you get a trophy for.
Other languages are spelled the way they sound.
Many, yes, but there are other english speaking countries too, and still the US is the only one with wide-spread spelling competitions.