"Why English is so well-suited to spelling bees. 'The reason we have spelling bees in English,' Sokolowski says, 'is because it’s such a mongrel language.' Given that our tongue is made up of words that come from Greek and Latin and Japanese and Native American roots, spelling is much more unpredictable than, say, French—which Sokolowski sums up as 'just bad Latin.' Le snap!"
"Six Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Scripps National Spelling Bee." One of them is the fatal schwa. You have been warned.
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