In kindergarten I somehow thought my friend’s name was Rocky and she wouldn’t respond and I got mad then at the END OF THE YEAR.. the teacher goes “Alright you try (not here for privacy, this is rOcKy)”, and I was like “I never heard of a (not here for privacy), and then ROCKY STOOD UP AND I WAS SO EMBARASSED
I won my spelling bee in elementary school and the students complained that it "didn't count because I was indian". 15 years later, I still think about this
@@MrChummington because spelling bees happen only/mostly in America? And honestly it's only America/Britain/Australia where there is racism against India
@@rtixboi4193 might be, like in Australia or UK, but in this specific case about a spell bee, my guess was USA because that's where most spell bees happen, isn't it?
Hi Matt, I'm the plaid shirt guy in the intro, and now I'm an organizer of pro-level bees. I've got a crazy one for you from the elite ranks. I know a guy who last year missed "pau", a Hawaiian word, in round 1 of the preliminaries of the spelling world championship system, as "p-a-o". A year later, this dude went for over 60 rounds in the finals and is currently the world champion.
0:15 for those looking for the specific person. Also, really interesting how 1 word can really make the difference between "disqualified first round" and "world champion".
@@estebson... which is exactly why the rest of the world doesn't really consider it a competition, lol No hate to those that enjoy it as a hobby, but it's way too luck based to really work as something you can have champions about. You don't have competitions about rolling dice for the same reason 😅
@@sakkikoyumikishi Honestly, I'd say it's mostly skill based. Like sure, you have to hope that you get a word you know, but that's exactly why you train yourself on a large array of words, their contexts, etc. Not to mention the incredible task of maintaining yourself under pressure, especially the further up you go. If we can have championships on Scrabble and casino games, I don't see why spelling bee championships would be any different, especially in a language as grammatically volatile and diverse as English.
I remember getting into a fight over the word “annihilation” when trying to qualify for my school spelling bee, arguing that it indeed had an “h” in it. I was eliminated and then found it spelled the exact way I did in the dictionary, even though the teacher who had a doctorate said no. My mom stormed over there that afternoon. I was never questioned or doubted by that teacher again.
That’s something like what happened to me in 7th grade. I got the word “archaeology,” and being an archaeology nerd, I knew the word well and rattled it off only to be told that I was wrong. The teachers were using a booklet of words from a local newspaper that was sponsoring the spelling bee, and had printed the word as “archology.” I complained and said I knew I had spelled “archaeology” correctly, but it was wrong on the list and none of the 3 teachers there could spell it, so I was eliminated.
The fact that one person who was supposed to spell the word “fork” got a second chance to spell it correctly, and still spelled it the same way before, is hilarious.
Could have spelled it like the expletive and gotten escorted off the stage and slapped with a two-week suspension, but no Edit: As I type this, the likes count is at the funny number, whoever makes it 70 will mess it up
My son has Asperger's. The whole time growing up, when I would try to get him to spell a word or do a math problem he would do that. You could ask him a question, get the wrong answer, explain what the right answer is, ask again, and again get the exact same wrong answer. Repeat, oh say 7 times or so for each question. That boy almost killed me.
To be fair to the sleigh-slay person, the fact that they got confused about which word it was means their spelling bee was extremely poorly run, so the "mistake" wasn't their fault. Actual spelling bees are supposed to use the word in a sentence to eliminate the chance of confusion between similar words. If you can't be bothered to do that, then you don't get to use words that sound exactly identical to others.
Anytime an adult IN the educational system tries to compliment a kid with “I don’t know how to do that” they’re actually saying two things: 1) the educational system is largely a failure 2) don’t let anyone give you shit for slacking ever again
in fourth grade i got disqualified for spelling "cannot" because they ACTUALLY wanted me to spell "can not". to this day i still get pissed if i think about it
It's the same thing as the sleigh/slay thing. Homophones should either be excluded or have any alternative spelling allowed. Cannot and can not are pronounced exactly the same, as are sleigh and slay, reed and read, red and read, etc. Hell, can not shouldn't even count, cuz, isn't the point to spell ONE word? Can not is fucking TWO.
Everyone can collectively agree how cool Matt is and how odd it is that he can easily pronounce such odd words and also such difficult keyboard smashes [Edit: I am so sorry everyone, I mean coll 😔]
When I was in year 1, I was mad, offended that in reading groups everyone, IE, me, started in the lowest group. I taught myself to read before I even went to school so I looked at the assigned words and went “do they REALLY think I’m too stupid to spell ‘the?’” So I misspelt stuff on spelling tests on purpose just to spite the very confused teacher. Eventually my mum was brought in and y’know… asked me why everything was wrong on the tests despite me reading fantasy novels at home. She then explained it to me and the teacher, and I immediately skyrocketed to the top of reading groups after understanding that tests aren’t a passive aggressive way teachers call you stupid.
When I was little, I was in one of these and got the word “again.” I spelled it “agen.” I could spell Ichthyovenator without batting an eye but THAT was what got me.
My dad was in a spelling bee in 5th grade. He misspelled a word on purpose so he could leave, but the teacher knew and made him stay in. So he was determined to win it after his teacher got mad at him, and he won, both of them scowling at each other as his teacher hands him his trophy.
Honestly, if I was in the shoes of that kid who spelled "spatial" because of the judge's speech impediment, it would be borderline impossible for me to not get violent at that judge.
I did pretty well in the one spelling bee I ever entered, considering my relatively young age at the time. It's funny how we don't remember the words we spelled correctly, only our failures. I was eliminated after eagerly spelling SEEN. It turned out the word was SCENE, which I could have spelled correctly if I had asked for a definition or sentence.
3rd grade, they asked me to spell ‘Don’t’ I said ‘D-O-N-T’ And they almost excluded me because I didn’t put an apostrophe. Oh and they didn’t say punctuations were required!
i got pretty close to winning the spelling bee in the 5th grade, my word was, “beautiful” and i spelled it perfectly. But one of the judges heard it wrong and disqualified me. Then about 4 minutes later i hear “there’s been a mistake” and i was called back on stage. After being welcomed back, they gave me the word, Aztec and i spelled it, “a - s - s - t- e- c”. not my proudest moment.
The fact that spelling competitions even exist is proof that the English language is chaos. I'm learning Spanish and it's much easier: if you can read it, you can say it.
Once in my middle school spelling bee I got up to second place spelling words like “controversial” and “chlorophyll” but ended up losing on the word “delicious” and it it burned into my mind to this day.
My aunt told about how once she was drunk with her friends and(they were at a club) they decided to play spelling bee there by them selves.The word was tomato,her friend said "B-E-B-A-T-O" and one dude screamed "YOU DUMBASSES IT'S O-M-O-T-A"him and her friend argued for an hour.They have 3 kids now
I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that when you're standing there and everyone is staring at you, with a look of expectation, the nerves really get to you. I was the nerdy kid who could already read and write in preschool and was basically a walking encyclopedia of dinosaurs. When I was in middle school, I got into the spelling bee, was the first person up, the nerves got to me, and I blanked. I don't even remember it, I just remember that I was immediately disqualified. It doesn't matter how much you've studied, they never prepare you for dozens of people staring at you.
I agree with this. We learned to write in preschool, and maybe sound some things out, but if you were writing with eligible, smallish handwriting, I applaud that. But what kind of reading could you do?
Another thing people seem to forget is how different spelling the word aloud is from writing it down and actually seeing it, it really messes with your brain for some reason
I constantly got top grades on reading and writing and when we did speeches instead of a SB I said ‘Consider’ as ‘Cinsider’ and got tongue tied from fright and cried myself off the stage.
I won my spelling bee in third grade. Went to district, it got delayed because of a snow day. Rescheduled for my BIRTHDAY. Usually spelling bees go in alphabetical order by last name. My last name starts with a B, and I went first. Word was "premises". Spelled it "premesis". Got out first word, first person. Proceeded to have a meltdown. The next year I purposely lost so I didn't have to relive the hell again.
I was in my elementary spelling bee. I got the word "Laying" or "Lying". I asked for it to be used in a sentence. I lost because she mispronounced it. I came in 3rd. All because someone mispronounced a word. Think that's what gave me stage fright.
We don't do spelling bees at all here in Poland far as I know but one time few years back my class was taken to an event showcasing American culture and one of the fun games they made us do was a mock spelling bee, just, you know, for funsies, as a group activity. Thing is most of them kids barely spoke english, so I sort of ended up doing all of the words by myself. The people running the whole thing had no idea what to do with me but they felt bad about not having any prizes prepared so they gave me some random book they happened to have in one of their offices, about dancing styles in American history. I still have that book somewhere.
In Poland there's dyktando instead where you have to write what you're hearing because letters like rz and ż sound the same and people often get those wrong. I participated in a national one when I was still a kid and won a tablet.
for a year, i went to a religious charter school that made me participate in events for…no reason? once i had to recite poetry in front of a theater of people for doing good on an assignment, but thats another story. everyone in the school HAD to participate in the spelling bee. no ifs, ands or buts. my paranoid and anxious squirrel brain luckily didnt make it through the first round. it wouldve been humiliating to have a live video of me failing to spell onomatopoeia broadcasted to the school.
I was in a spelling bee one year where I made it super far in before losing. But then after I got eliminated the people running the spelling bee thought it was going on too long and switched to another list that none of us had ever studied, starting from the easiest words first. I still feel cheated that I lost to a hard word while the remaining kids got words like "viper."
@@Purpleking_Official No, but I had done well in previous spelling bees so I felt bitter over it. I remember my mom said it was a trickier one that she thought I should have studied more
RIGHT! First round district spelling bee I got bungalow. The next kid got nightingale. I was mad his was so much easier. Edit: I guess it wasn't that much easier. I might have misremember and mine wasn't bungalow, but it was something odd sounding odd never heard before.
I won my 3rd grade class spelling bee by spelling "idiosyncrasy" But then I lost the 3rd grade finals where I spelled birthday "birstday" lol In my 4th grade, I won by spelling "denouement" I learned the meaning of idiosyncrasy and denouement both from a series of unfortunate events.
Story I will continually tell to all of my friends: In the fourth grade we had a spelling bee, in which kids from my class were brought up against the wall to spell words, whoever was the last remaining kid to get all the words right was the class representative. Then there’d be a great big spelling bee in the school auditorium, in which every class representative would compete to see who would go out of state. Come the auditorium speling bee day, our class representative (I’ll call him kenny, not his real name) made it to like the final round, up against the last person named Kel (don’t know his name). Kenny gets this really hard word (cuz, final round essentially), very long, more than 10 letters probably, and he misspells it. You know what fucking words Kel got??! Fucking. Nacho. N A C H O, NACHO HE GOT NACHO AND WON THE DAMN THING, LIKE A B I T C H
That's what I hate about spelling bees. I didn't get to participate in my school's seventh grade spelling bee because I got a longer word that I couldn't sound out during the class spelling bee. There was no prep for that class spelling bee, either, they just sprung it on you one day and you had to wing it. The other girl in my class competing for the school spelling bee got "compendium" as the winning word. Which is pronounced exactly as it sounds. Frick that. I felt better when she only made it to the third round of the school spelling bee. And then I showed them when I won my eighth grade school spelling bee, was runner-up at our district spelling bee, and got top eight in the regional spelling bee before I got out on purpose because I didn't want to go to state (the state spelling bee was televised, and I didn't feel like embarrassing myself on TV). Frick seventh grade.
@@nudiustertian3686 a compendium is a collection of information about a certain topic. Encyclopedias, cookbooks, and textbooks are a few examples. It’s one of those big words that the average person doesn’t use very much, like discombobulated or flabbergasted (both of which mean “surprised”). At least, I don’t hear it much in conversation. 🤷♀️
Once in Year 6, my class teacher AND headteacher didn't know how to spell "pharaoh". They thought it was spelt "pharoah" and when they found out I was right (thank you Google), as a nerd, it had to be one of the most triumphant moments of my life.
I’ve never been in a spelling bee. I remember vaguely that my 1st grade teacher set up a spelling bee for the class. It was planned in advance, and I was so excited to be in it that I made sure to try and get all my work done beforehand. Spelling bee day comes, and I wasn’t allowed to participate because- I quote what my teacher said- “You don’t spell good anyways, so just sit out so you don’t make your team lose.” 7 years old, and I was the only kid singled out while everyone else had fun with some of the easiest words in existence. It’s hard *not* to think that was an intentional jab at my self worth by my teacher.
I feel your pain 😞 when I was in Kindergarten I had a teacher who, one day, kept me in the classroom while the other kids were playing outside because I was struggling with my math work and safe to say I was in tears at the end. Now that I think about it that could be one of the reasons why I absolutely loathe math 😅
I got recommended in the eighth grade for the spelling bee because I read a lot. I warned the teacher recommending me that I was bad at spelling, but agreed to go if only to skip a class. First word I got was “Watermelon.” I psyched myself out of the correct spelling and said “Watermellon” with 2 L’s. Not my proudest moment, but I never misspelt it again lol
Not me, but in a spelling bee, the first kid got the word “building”. She spelt it, “b u i l d i n g”. The judge said, “wrong”. The entire audience went, “hUh?” The judge then proceeded to say, “it’s spelt, ‘b i l b y’”. EVERYBODY had heard “building”. The girl got another chance.
This video unearthed one of my most embarrassing memories, where fifth grade me spelled “cork” as “corck” in the very first round of the school spelling bee. Worst part was the fact that my parents had already called these place where I took my music lessons and told them I wouldn't make my usual 6:00pm class that day, since I knew all the hard words... the spelling bee started at 4:00pm, and I was eliminated just 5 minutes later (thankfully they didn't make me go). I ended up crying about it for the rest of the day, and even over a decade later my family still brings it up.
@@miau6451 words with double letters like that ALWAYS trip me up to this day. Is it accross or across? Succeed or suceed? Recommend, reccomend, or reccommend? If it weren't for auto correct and google to double check word spelling quickly, I'd be in trouble.
I lost the very first round of the spelling bee in sixth grade with the word “fiend”. I had seen that word in books plenty of times but never thought to look it up and thought it was pronounced fee-yend
We did a lot of spelling bees where I’m at, here’s some of my favorite horror stories: - spelled silent s-i-l-n-t and cried in front of everybody - got eliminated and accidentally sat on the kid in front of me - motioned to my mom that i wanted to leave in front of the entire district. repeatedly. - won the district spelling bee, was in a final spell-off to determine who got to go to regionals. i know how to spell every word they’re throwing out, i’ve got this. i walk up to the mic, they ask me to spell “inaugurate”. my dumb ass spells it inaugura-TION in front of everybody. i get dinged and eliminated, i facepalm on stage, rest my head on the microphone, and dejectedly walk back to my seat - freaked out so bad over the possibility of me losing the eighth grade spelling bee that my parents agreed to send me to therapy
What I remember most is that it turned out one of my friends who literally had straight Ds and Fs and never knew the answer to anything turned out to have near perfect memory for spelling. She was able to spell everything they tried at our middle school
I haven't finished the video yet, but it reminds me of the Simpsons where Milhouse's first word in the spelling bee was "choke" and he said "f. Oh God!" And ran off the stage
4:50 this was EXACTLY the story I was THINKING OF when I clicked on this video. This exact thing beat-for-beat happened to someone in my 4th grade spelling bee
I won a spelling bee once and then AFTER I won, they told me I was disqualified because I cried on stage due to an anxiety attack before my first word and they counted that as, like, delaying or something. The girl who won instead was nice though 🤷♀️ EDIT: I never get replies on stuff this is odd haha. Just to clarify everyone was super nice and stuff and I was fine with it. It was apparently in the rules that they should've given me a different word after I calmed down so that I wouldn't have an advantage, and they didn't, and if I remember they offered to like re-do stuff. But I didn't really want to go to the next level of the competition anyway so I didn't care. The runner up was super sweet and we actually became friends haha.
Being from the UK, I've never done a spelling bee but I am haunted by the spelling test I did when I was little where I spelt during, guring. Especially when I realised after getting it back that all the words were in alphabetical order
Also from the UK - My most embarrassing English moment was during the weekly 'big write'. We were asked to write a story. I wrote a story, where a robber broke into the house, and my dad subdued him with a pair of handcuffs "my mum kept in the wardrobe." 9 year old me had seen them, and assumed they were for if we ever got robbed. 💀
I was in the city spelling bee once. One of the words we were to practice was an obscure medical term that wasn't in the Merriam-Webster and was made completely of just x's, y's and z's.
i won the spelling bee at my school.. essentially. i had to spell the word "chloroform". i spelled it, but the judges couldn't hear me spelling it because i talk quietly. instead of asking me to spell it again and speak up they gave the same word to the guy who i was up against (we were the last people in) and he spelled it the exact same way i did and won. fun memories man.
The one time I entered a spelling bee, the judge was an old Indian lady with a very heavy accent. The word was cavalcade, which sounded, the way she pronounced it, like "cattlecade" (which I proceeded to spell out and then lose.)
I won my 5th grade spelling bee with the word "mayonnaise" because I knew it had two "n"s. All the adults I told the story to spelt mayonnaise wrong, and I was overjoyed at the thought that I could spell "mayonnaise" better than a 40-year-old
I myself have never fucked up a word in the spelling bee (two-time winner at my old middle school) but I do remember another student fucking up both "absent" and "goggles" both years I was there. She spelled absent like "A-P…D-O-G" and goggles like "G-O-O-L-E-S". I still remember that to this day.
Our spelling bees were comprised of spelling tests to see who knew the most words. In year 7, the second round of our class's spelling bee was peer marked. I swapped with the guy I liked and he apologised in advance if I couldn't read his writing and I said it wasn't an issue. It wasn't, but he had to clarify one of the letters on my test. I am still mortified to this day
Makes me feel better about accidentally spelling “mayor” as “mayer” Trust me it’s harder to spell things in front of judges and the school. I also can’t be the only one who slips up with G’s and J’s sometimes
I said c instead of K in Korea. I knew how to spell it, I just got nervous. What makes this more embarrassing is that it was just the 6 of us in the spelling bee, our parents, and a few teachers as judges
I will never forget losing the spelling bee in 4th grade even though I spelled “recipe” correctly. I don’t know what they thought I said, but the girl behind me spelled it exactly how I did and ended up winning the whole thing. She won free tickets to a roller skating rink and didn’t go because she had other plans. I was poor and would have done just about anything to go to the roller skating rink. It was like 30 years ago and I’m still salty. 😭
@@imsotiredofthiscrap2341 That's why they should take a recording of the answers to make sure no mistakes are made in judgement. Also, why are you using the pronoun "they" instead of "she"? Fucking liberals.
Why was my comment removed? Was it reported as a troll post? All I did was criticise "I'm so tired of this crap"'s word choice. I guess that's just what RUclips is. Just silence criticism.
I live in Colombia and my school used to do spelling bees. Problem was, whenever I got up to the stage, the person saying the words mispronounced them ON PURPOSE. He did that to me 3 years in a row, making it one of the reasons I left.
Once went to a showing of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" where they seeded the spellers with random audience members. They gave one lady "Mexican," clearly thinking (and hoping) she'd last another round like they needed for the plot. She improvised and asked for a definition, use in a sentence, everything to ham it up. Audience ate it up. She immediately misspelled it. Her look of genuine shock was even funnier than anything she did on purpose.
One time we had a spelling bee like a tournament, and one kid in my class beat the class spelling bee, the grade spelling bee, and got to the school spelling bee, and he got 3rd in the district and got this HUGE trophy. Props to Ronin.
at my district spelling bee, i was given a word that nobody in the audience or any of the competitors had even heard before, let alone knew how to spell. the word was cabal and the proctor kept saying “cobble”. it was the second round. i ran offstage in tears.
I'm dyslexic but didn't know it until my early 20's. I purposely got out on the first round every spelling bee because I was too embarrassed to try and be wrong in front of everyone. Worked like a charm.
I just realized that people who speak english as their first language understand/see english language differently. In finnish everything is written as it's said, so I also use it when practicing/reading english words. Everything sounds the same so I never understood why spelling contests even existed, it'd be too easy.
The fact so many native english speakers in this video mixed up J and G, and it’s perfectly understandable 💀 If someone did that in Finnish they'd be laughed out of the country, that’s like mixing up K and S or something, but English? “No, we pronounce them the same sometimes, but not always :)”
I won my school’s spelling bee (in my grade at least) for four years in a row before I quit. One of my fond memories is when I moved on to the County Bee in first grade and misspelled “crying.” I had written it down on paper right, then changed my mind and said “criing.” Another time, I forgot the word “court” existed, and spelled it “cort.” I genuinely couldn’t remember what the word meant.
i won a spelling bee in fourth grade, mind you I had never seen a spelling bee before, but when the teacher asked me what my winning word was, I paused and said "thank you...?"
We were made to enter a school spelling bee, they'd put the top spellers in the classes against eachother in a school assembly later in the month. So our class did a mini spelling bee to see who to send up, and I was doing really well, but as the number of people standing at the front of the class started dwindling, I got really anxious. I didn't want to compete in the final spelling bee infront of the school if I felt that anxious just in front of my class, so when it was my turn to spell "tomato" I decided to chicken out and add an 'e' on the end so I could be disqualified and sit down. What I didn't think about was how the class would laugh at me spelling 'tomato' wrong, which made me feel even more anxious! At least I didn't have a chance to win and do it all again in front of the whole school :')
@@deactivatedHonda I live in one of the few places where it's "haytch", and I'm glad I do. I hate dropping H's, so I'm not going to do it in the very name of the letter itself. Imagine pronouncing any other letter without it's own sound.
I empathize with this, because in elementary school they were trying to find kids that could sing in the school choir. I thought if I sang even decently, I would be forced to do it. That idea made me so nervous that I purposely sang as terribly as I could so I would fail the audition and go back to class.
I thought the word was pronounced "trusulently" before seeing it was "trukulently". Altho tbf, I never really understood that one catchphrase to do with the pronuncation of in certain positions as a kid. Only later when I went into researching phonetics in my freetime did I understand. I didn't have any spelling bees afaik but I felt pretty good at my spelling as a kid.
I still have vivid memory of a classroom spelling bee were I was like "oh I'm too lazy to bother with this, I'll just flunk out on purpose, sit back down, and just chill while everyone else does their thing." But then I thought, "the teacher will probably get mad at me for obviously flunking by spelling a word like 'Apple' with a 'Z' at the beginning. I need to make it not so obvious that I want to fail this." So I started to spell the words correctly, while in the back of my head figuring out a letter I could replace while making it reasonable that I would mistake the two. By the time I had a letter I could replace reasonably I'd already spelled the word in full correctly. This went on for a while until it was me and two other kids, I had failed to fail myself for so long that I was now in third place for my whole class. At this point I thought to myself, "huh, maybe I should try. I'm already third I could probably beat them both, seems easy enough." So I decided to actually try as apposed to intentionally attempting to fail myself. It gets back to my turn and I've finally decided to try. The first word that I actually gave my full attention to: "30, spell 30." "T-h-i-r- ... d." Immediately failed as soon as I bothered to care. Moral of the story: don't try anything ever, you'll just fail if you do.
I lost a spelling bee to the word “Veloute”. Veloute. A French word. In an ENGLISH SPELLING BEE. VELOUTE. I will never forget my English department for that
After winning my elementary school's Spelling Bee in 5th Grade, I participated once again in 6th great and got to the top 4. Then I got the word "Problem", and out of sheer stress accidentally spelled it "promblem" - TWICE. Now, in my elementary school you wouldn't get immediately disqualified once you get one word wrong, instead after the end of each round the judges decide who moves on to the next round and then announce it. I wasn't very focused during the announcement, and the next thing I heard was my entire class cheering my name so I assumed I passed and joined the line with the other finalists. Then when my turn came the judge looked at me and said "Wait, what are you doing here? You were disqualified!" Needless to say I cried quite a bit that day.
I'll never forget when I participated in a General Knowledge competition (each school had two teams). The first section was a spelling bee, but they had a non-english speaker read the words, because of this, many pronunciations were wrong, but this especially came into play when my school's first team got given the word "symmetry", but the person announcing the words pronounced it as "cemetery." You can imagine the confusion when it was incorrect...
Never got spelling bees over in the UK but I remember in primary school I was always good at spelling since I was 'a gifted kid' and one week we had a bunch of increasingly harder spelling tests at the end of which I ended up getting the top score on each one, and a bunch of the other kids were moaning about how a foreign kid did better than them. Not only do I realise now that that's kind of discriminatory with how weirdly angry some of them were about it, I still stand by my confusion that at least half the class didn't even get half marks on the first test, which were all 3 letter words like CAT and DOG and LEG. Maybe the reason I got better marks was because I didn't use the entirety of another kid's whiteout pen to draw on my arm and then try to tell on them for sharpening pencils, ELLIS.
Cat, dog, leg? I question little children these days. And all children my age, for they don't like or haven't even read The Hunger Games. They don't like reading! Your confusion was rightfully there!
@@brightblackhole2442 i've already saw a dirty-minded reply section on a comment that used the word "moaning" not in THAT context so i kinda warned people while being "dirty-minded"
My best friend was in the spelling bee. She was close to winning the 3rd (or 4th? She told me that she can’t exactly remember) spelling bee. Her word was gemstone, but she accidentally spelled it with a j instead of a g. That moment’s been stuck with her for years.
My grandmother has lived in West Virginia most of her life and her pronunciation of "special" like "spatial" was my first realization that she had an accent
losing a spelling bee because of a boner is actually the premise for an entire musical. 25th annual putnam county spelling bee by william finn, an evergreen classic
We had a highschool spelling bee, in order to get everyone warmed up and familiar with the structure they gave a practice round with very easy words. One kid got the word "Deer" and went "Deer. D-E-R. Deer." It was and accident and I am sure he was nervous. Everyone had a laugh and the judges were kind enough to let him stay in to which after that word he did very well. Made it to the final 3 even.
I won a spelling bee in second grade because the last kid (smartest in the grade, he would have won if not for this) forgot to say the word before spelling it, which made me very happy at the time but thinking back it was quite sad. We were using big words too, he was doing quite well up against me and the other 22 kids in my class. I won a little plastic bee wearing a graduation cap that's sitting somewhere in a drawer now, so that's nice.
I had my very first spelling bee last week. I got it wrong and then said straight into the microphone "shit. WAIT NO WAIT NO NO NO KAYLA WHY NO GOD NO I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!!"
I once lost a 5th grade spelling bee because of the word “weather”. I spelled it as “whether”, and it haunted me that I never bothered to ask for the context of the word, I just charged in like little miss know-it-all 😢😮😊.
i misspelled “barbecue” as “barbeque” during a spelling bee once. it’s been a decade, and i’m still salty that it wasn’t accepted as an alternate spelling.
One of my friends went into a year 3 spelling bee, like a competition, it meant something at the time, and she got the word “ballot” and she lost because she spelt it “ballet” and she didn’t believe me when I told her I knew how to spell it, she said “you’re just saying that because you know how to spell it now” but I actually did know how to spell it lmao 💀💀
Where I live in Canada we don't have spelling bees, and thank fuck for that. These nightmares sound traumatic as fuck for kids with anxiety disorders and/or learning disorders. In my elementary school, we had spelling tests instead, where the teacher would go through a list of words and all the students would write them down on their own pieces of paper to try and spell them correctly. I always got perfect scores because I read lots of books (remember reading books? I wish I still had the enthusiasm for it). My ability to spell is very good, but get me to spell something out loud and there's a good chance I'll fuck it up like the poor chaps in the video. It's like the ability to spell something on paper is in a different part of the brain from the ability to spell something out loud.
i LOVED english and i had horrific anxiety on account of the bullying so spelling tests were so much fun. my biggest flex was in 3rd grade when i spent like a week making a storage system in minecraft so extensive i think i typed the word miscellaneous like 50 times, so when i get the very same word on my spelling test the next day i FREAKED OUT. saw the panicked expressions on half the class like YESSS WEEP
In reception (age 4) I wrote a story about Bob the plecmn. I only figured out what Bob was supposed to be bc he had a blue hat. He was Bob, the _policeman._
When I was in 5th grade, a girl in my class actually went to the spelling bee nationals. She ended up spelling “stereotypical” as “stereotipical”. Later in 6th grade a kid misspelled funnel somehow and half the class got taken out by the word “hangar”, thinking the word was “hanger”.
I will never forget this one. I remember participating in my school’s spelling bee in 4th grade. I was one of 4 people left and when I went up, the word they gave me was Watermelon. I go, w-a-t-e-r-E-m-e-l-o-n. The teachers told me I had gotten it wrong. I asked why as I was confident I had correctly spelled it. They told me about that damned extra E I put and I just faceplamed my way off stage. I told my mom and sister and they laughed and made up a joke. Whenever we would buy watermelon at the store, they would always call it Water-EH-melon. I was absolutely scarred for a few years, embarrassed that I had misspelled a word as simple as WATERMELON, let alone being in 4TH GRADE!!! But in the end, I found it to be hilarious.
There was one kid in one of my elementary school spelling bees who started "raspberry" as "R-A-Z." His face dropped when he realized his mistake, and he didn't even finish spelling the word. I feel bad for him to this day, especially because that's how "raspberry" is pronounced. He was also one of the smartest kids in my grade.
I once lost in a spelling bee when I incorrectly spelt carriage. I don't remember how I spelt it but I vividly remember that it was one of the first time I had heard that word. I probably spelt it like C-a-r-r-a-g-e
As a frequent spelling bee participant in school, I absolutely loved this hahaha. The “spatial” one reminds me of a time I watched a kid lose on “salmon” lol. I couldn’t help but feel like it was some bullshit even though “sammon” is the correct pronunciation lol Also maybe that one kid’s “tounge” was too short and they later went to HealthTap for answers
I wonder if spelling bees are really a thing in other languages, because English has so many words that just aren't spelled the way they sound and that doesn't seem to be quite as common in other languages (not that I know the 7000+ languages spoken, so who knows)
I witnessed a kid forget their _own name_ at the beginning and then go on to WIN THE WHOLE THING. It was beautiful.
Kind of reminds me how I forgot my name and said the person who just said their name as I was caught off guard.
They really pulled a Spongebob, dumping every irrelevant piece of information out of their brain and filling it with spelling bee words.
I wrote the name of the girl in front of me during our final exams... I was in 9th grade...
In kindergarten I somehow thought my friend’s name was Rocky and she wouldn’t respond and I got mad then at the END OF THE YEAR.. the teacher goes “Alright you try (not here for privacy, this is rOcKy)”, and I was like “I never heard of a (not here for privacy), and then ROCKY STOOD UP AND I WAS SO EMBARASSED
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I won my spelling bee in elementary school and the students complained that it "didn't count because I was indian". 15 years later, I still think about this
Then did the jury scolded them for racism or they did the typical American thing? Did you win or not?
@@M1551NGN0...What makes you assume they were American?
@@MrChummington because spelling bees happen only/mostly in America? And honestly it's only America/Britain/Australia where there is racism against India
@@M1551NGN0 The worst racism happens outside of America
@@rtixboi4193 might be, like in Australia or UK, but in this specific case about a spell bee, my guess was USA because that's where most spell bees happen, isn't it?
Hi Matt, I'm the plaid shirt guy in the intro, and now I'm an organizer of pro-level bees. I've got a crazy one for you from the elite ranks. I know a guy who last year missed "pau", a Hawaiian word, in round 1 of the preliminaries of the spelling world championship system, as "p-a-o".
A year later, this dude went for over 60 rounds in the finals and is currently the world champion.
0:15 for those looking for the specific person. Also, really interesting how 1 word can really make the difference between "disqualified first round" and "world champion".
Thats cool! Lol
@@estebson... which is exactly why the rest of the world doesn't really consider it a competition, lol
No hate to those that enjoy it as a hobby, but it's way too luck based to really work as something you can have champions about. You don't have competitions about rolling dice for the same reason 😅
@@sakkikoyumikishi Honestly, I'd say it's mostly skill based. Like sure, you have to hope that you get a word you know, but that's exactly why you train yourself on a large array of words, their contexts, etc. Not to mention the incredible task of maintaining yourself under pressure, especially the further up you go. If we can have championships on Scrabble and casino games, I don't see why spelling bee championships would be any different, especially in a language as grammatically volatile and diverse as English.
yooooo it's the kabaragoya kid, it's insane to think famous spelling bee meme kids are in their 20s now doing amazing things :)
I remember getting into a fight over the word “annihilation” when trying to qualify for my school spelling bee, arguing that it indeed had an “h” in it. I was eliminated and then found it spelled the exact way I did in the dictionary, even though the teacher who had a doctorate said no. My mom stormed over there that afternoon. I was never questioned or doubted by that teacher again.
Good
A good ending. Refreshing!
angry mothers are terrifying
Good on your mom! Some of these stories were so infuriating so it’s nice to hear that your mom had your back on this
That’s something like what happened to me in 7th grade. I got the word “archaeology,” and being an archaeology nerd, I knew the word well and rattled it off only to be told that I was wrong. The teachers were using a booklet of words from a local newspaper that was sponsoring the spelling bee, and had printed the word as “archology.” I complained and said I knew I had spelled “archaeology” correctly, but it was wrong on the list and none of the 3 teachers there could spell it, so I was eliminated.
The fact that one person who was supposed to spell the word “fork” got a second chance to spell it correctly, and still spelled it the same way before, is hilarious.
Could have spelled it like the expletive and gotten escorted off the stage and slapped with a two-week suspension, but no
Edit: As I type this, the likes count is at the funny number, whoever makes it 70 will mess it up
*F O R C K*
ya'll get second chances?
@@leona067 y'all get spelling bees?
My son has Asperger's. The whole time growing up, when I would try to get him to spell a word or do a math problem he would do that. You could ask him a question, get the wrong answer, explain what the right answer is, ask again, and again get the exact same wrong answer. Repeat, oh say 7 times or so for each question. That boy almost killed me.
To be fair to the sleigh-slay person, the fact that they got confused about which word it was means their spelling bee was extremely poorly run, so the "mistake" wasn't their fault. Actual spelling bees are supposed to use the word in a sentence to eliminate the chance of confusion between similar words. If you can't be bothered to do that, then you don't get to use words that sound exactly identical to others.
in mine, you had to ask for the word to be used in a sentence. homophones were a nightmare, especially if you _didn't know_ a word was a homophone
Would have helped that kid who spelled "spatial" too lol
@@domino-dudea good rule of thumb was to always ask for sentence, definition, and word origin
@@insertcreativenamehere492mine was fifty years ago. I only knew about the sentence option 😂
@@STUMAHA oof yeah that sucks
Anytime an adult IN the educational system tries to compliment a kid with “I don’t know how to do that” they’re actually saying two things:
1) the educational system is largely a failure
2) don’t let anyone give you shit for slacking ever again
CORRECT
in fourth grade i got disqualified for spelling "cannot" because they ACTUALLY wanted me to spell "can not". to this day i still get pissed if i think about it
Like including a space, that’s out of this world (I just realized I accidentally did a pun 💀)
Wow, that's actually unfair on you, that should have been legally challenged.
It's the same thing as the sleigh/slay thing. Homophones should either be excluded or have any alternative spelling allowed. Cannot and can not are pronounced exactly the same, as are sleigh and slay, reed and read, red and read, etc.
Hell, can not shouldn't even count, cuz, isn't the point to spell ONE word? Can not is fucking TWO.
I did something sorta similar. They asked me to spell “Don’t” And I said “D-O-N-T” And they almost disqualified me for not including an apostrophe.
I love the absolute passion in Matt’s voice when he sees a skull emoji. I need it in this video.
Lol...
Mat was weak toady
and when theres CAPITALISED WORDS
Skuhull emogi
Ikr
Everyone can collectively agree how cool Matt is and how odd it is that he can easily pronounce such odd words and also such difficult keyboard smashes
[Edit: I am so sorry everyone, I mean coll 😔]
I agree as a newcomer to his channel
HEY PRONOUNCE THIS AUCSAFAWHFSBSBTSGEGS6IA7WRA 💀
Edit: Can't forget the 💀
@@haleyc1189 you’ll see a lot of this 😂
@@KawaiiPandass123 Atleast it’s going to be a good source for entertainment 😂
True
When I was in year 1, I was mad, offended that in reading groups everyone, IE, me, started in the lowest group. I taught myself to read before I even went to school so I looked at the assigned words and went “do they REALLY think I’m too stupid to spell ‘the?’” So I misspelt stuff on spelling tests on purpose just to spite the very confused teacher. Eventually my mum was brought in and y’know… asked me why everything was wrong on the tests despite me reading fantasy novels at home. She then explained it to me and the teacher, and I immediately skyrocketed to the top of reading groups after understanding that tests aren’t a passive aggressive way teachers call you stupid.
I love this😂😂
SKULL EMOJIIIIIIIIII
When I was little, I was in one of these and got the word “again.” I spelled it “agen.” I could spell Ichthyovenator without batting an eye but THAT was what got me.
bruh
My dad was in a spelling bee in 5th grade. He misspelled a word on purpose so he could leave, but the teacher knew and made him stay in. So he was determined to win it after his teacher got mad at him, and he won, both of them scowling at each other as his teacher hands him his trophy.
What a nice, sweet story!
lmao
Thumbs up for your dad!
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this comment went from 417 likes to 418 likes when I went to look at the replies, and I just made it 419 likes
Honestly, if I was in the shoes of that kid who spelled "spatial" because of the judge's speech impediment, it would be borderline impossible for me to not get violent at that judge.
I mean... good luck handling an adult as a child. I get the frustration, but really?
@@kohlsnofl5110kids are strong asf and some adults are just weak asf
@@kohlsnofl5110yes
@@kohlsnofl5110 you really think a grown man presenting at a spelling bee would fight back against a kid?
This happened to me...
I did pretty well in the one spelling bee I ever entered, considering my relatively young age at the time. It's funny how we don't remember the words we spelled correctly, only our failures. I was eliminated after eagerly spelling SEEN. It turned out the word was SCENE, which I could have spelled correctly if I had asked for a definition or sentence.
That's dumb they shouldn't have word like that
@@marydorsett635 Welcome to the English language... and spelling bees.
3rd grade, they asked me to spell ‘Don’t’ I said ‘D-O-N-T’ And they almost excluded me because I didn’t put an apostrophe. Oh and they didn’t say punctuations were required!
i got pretty close to winning the spelling bee in the 5th grade, my word was, “beautiful” and i spelled it perfectly. But one of the judges heard it wrong and disqualified me. Then about 4 minutes later i hear “there’s been a mistake” and i was called back on stage. After being welcomed back, they gave me the word, Aztec and i spelled it,
“a - s - s - t- e- c”.
not my proudest moment.
I'm 16 and still struggle to spell beautiful lmao
Asstech
Highly qualified technology for your butt
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I want to fight the person who put an a in beautiful.
the only reason i can spell beautiful is because i think of those lines from Bruce Almighty whenever spelling it
That judge that pronounced "special" as "spatial" invoked a forbidden rage in me
Same. I also remember tons of teachers in Texas who pronounced else "elts".
If that had happened to me, I would have actually gone feral.
I laughed so hard at that
The fact that spelling competitions even exist is proof that the English language is chaos. I'm learning Spanish and it's much easier: if you can read it, you can say it.
Once in my middle school spelling bee I got up to second place spelling words like “controversial” and “chlorophyll” but ended up losing on the word “delicious” and it it burned into my mind to this day.
My aunt told about how once she was drunk with her friends and(they were at a club) they decided to play spelling bee there by them selves.The word was tomato,her friend said "B-E-B-A-T-O" and one dude screamed "YOU DUMBASSES IT'S O-M-O-T-A"him and her friend argued for an hour.They have 3 kids now
That is the best way that story could have ended.
iconic as hell
The ending-
How do the kids spell tomato?
@@gingermcgingin4106 omobebato
I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that when you're standing there and everyone is staring at you, with a look of expectation, the nerves really get to you. I was the nerdy kid who could already read and write in preschool and was basically a walking encyclopedia of dinosaurs. When I was in middle school, I got into the spelling bee, was the first person up, the nerves got to me, and I blanked. I don't even remember it, I just remember that I was immediately disqualified. It doesn't matter how much you've studied, they never prepare you for dozens of people staring at you.
I agree with this. We learned to write in preschool, and maybe sound some things out, but if you were writing with eligible, smallish handwriting, I applaud that. But what kind of reading could you do?
Another thing people seem to forget is how different spelling the word aloud is from writing it down and actually seeing it, it really messes with your brain for some reason
I constantly got top grades on reading and writing and when we did speeches instead of a SB I said ‘Consider’ as ‘Cinsider’ and got tongue tied from fright and cried myself off the stage.
On the plus side, spelling bees can help children in the long run by developing their public speaking skills
@@chinsaw2727 In the long run, maybe. I've been the representative speller for a few years now. My speaking skills still suck.
I won my spelling bee in third grade. Went to district, it got delayed because of a snow day. Rescheduled for my BIRTHDAY.
Usually spelling bees go in alphabetical order by last name. My last name starts with a B, and I went first.
Word was "premises". Spelled it "premesis". Got out first word, first person. Proceeded to have a meltdown.
The next year I purposely lost so I didn't have to relive the hell again.
I was in my elementary spelling bee. I got the word "Laying" or "Lying". I asked for it to be used in a sentence. I lost because she mispronounced it. I came in 3rd. All because someone mispronounced a word. Think that's what gave me stage fright.
We don't do spelling bees at all here in Poland far as I know but one time few years back my class was taken to an event showcasing American culture and one of the fun games they made us do was a mock spelling bee, just, you know, for funsies, as a group activity. Thing is most of them kids barely spoke english, so I sort of ended up doing all of the words by myself. The people running the whole thing had no idea what to do with me but they felt bad about not having any prizes prepared so they gave me some random book they happened to have in one of their offices, about dancing styles in American history. I still have that book somewhere.
In Poland there's dyktando instead where you have to write what you're hearing because letters like rz and ż sound the same and people often get those wrong. I participated in a national one when I was still a kid and won a tablet.
@@chix1337 Oh, don't remind me of podstawówka days...
I love Polish people
POLSKI P O L S K I P. O. L. S. K. I! P O L S K I. polski PoLSkI ₚₒₗₛₖᵢ
@@redRuxx are you alright? need an ambulance?
I lost a spelling bee on the 2nd round at the word "star." The embarrassment of spelling out "S-a-r-t" in front of an audience will always haunt me.
just b e happy you didn't put a h inside
@@turkey_sandwhichs h a r t
*s a r t*
for a year, i went to a religious charter school that made me participate in events for…no reason? once i had to recite poetry in front of a theater of people for doing good on an assignment, but thats another story.
everyone in the school HAD to participate in the spelling bee. no ifs, ands or buts. my paranoid and anxious squirrel brain luckily didnt make it through the first round. it wouldve been humiliating to have a live video of me failing to spell onomatopoeia broadcasted to the school.
"Spell whether."
"Can you use it in a sentence?"
"The weather seems to be whether sunny or rainy."
"W... E..."
*eliminated*
That's bs.
That was an intentional setup, reeeeeeee223ww322ww4w78e5w592929w5925o6epw5o35w2533365eeyitwktwsu0oyarreeeee33weeeeeesurPkYdkyrsirsyiae6iaet
please tell me u made this up bc the sentence doesnt even make sense
whether or not the weathers bad were still going
BRO THATS JUST EVIL
I was in a spelling bee one year where I made it super far in before losing. But then after I got eliminated the people running the spelling bee thought it was going on too long and switched to another list that none of us had ever studied, starting from the easiest words first. I still feel cheated that I lost to a hard word while the remaining kids got words like "viper."
Do you remember the word you had?
I felt this. The fact that it's allowed is just cheating. Can't stand when they switch lists
@@Purpleking_Official No, but I had done well in previous spelling bees so I felt bitter over it. I remember my mom said it was a trickier one that she thought I should have studied more
I had this happen to me once, I got anti-inflammatory while my friend got jelly
RIGHT! First round district spelling bee I got bungalow. The next kid got nightingale. I was mad his was so much easier.
Edit: I guess it wasn't that much easier. I might have misremember and mine wasn't bungalow, but it was something odd sounding odd never heard before.
Waiting for the day Matt pronounces a keyboard smash and then all of his furniture starts floating.
soon, my friend. the pieces of the puzzle are all coming together. he must be ready. he must prepare. he must run.
my brother in christ, I'm pretty sure it's already happened by now
It's LeviOsa, not LeviosA.
Huh???
@@spreest9537 You gotta pronouce the gar
I won my 3rd grade class spelling bee by spelling "idiosyncrasy"
But then I lost the 3rd grade finals where I spelled birthday "birstday" lol
In my 4th grade, I won by spelling "denouement"
I learned the meaning of idiosyncrasy and denouement both from a series of unfortunate events.
What do they mean?
It still amazes me how Matt just pronounces complete and random gibberish. Like, he could pronounce HWOGUWPWOWOWWOWOAKAO No problem.
"i cried in front of the whole school" i felt that
Are you ok?
same here
Same here
My parents would've thrown hands with the teachers of one of these stupid mistakes had happened to me and it wasn't my fault 😅
Story I will continually tell to all of my friends: In the fourth grade we had a spelling bee, in which kids from my class were brought up against the wall to spell words, whoever was the last remaining kid to get all the words right was the class representative. Then there’d be a great big spelling bee in the school auditorium, in which every class representative would compete to see who would go out of state.
Come the auditorium speling bee day, our class representative (I’ll call him kenny, not his real name) made it to like the final round, up against the last person named Kel (don’t know his name). Kenny gets this really hard word (cuz, final round essentially), very long, more than 10 letters probably, and he misspells it. You know what fucking words Kel got??! Fucking. Nacho. N A C H O, NACHO
HE GOT NACHO AND WON THE DAMN THING, LIKE A B I T C H
That's what I hate about spelling bees. I didn't get to participate in my school's seventh grade spelling bee because I got a longer word that I couldn't sound out during the class spelling bee. There was no prep for that class spelling bee, either, they just sprung it on you one day and you had to wing it.
The other girl in my class competing for the school spelling bee got "compendium" as the winning word. Which is pronounced exactly as it sounds. Frick that.
I felt better when she only made it to the third round of the school spelling bee.
And then I showed them when I won my eighth grade school spelling bee, was runner-up at our district spelling bee, and got top eight in the regional spelling bee before I got out on purpose because I didn't want to go to state (the state spelling bee was televised, and I didn't feel like embarrassing myself on TV). Frick seventh grade.
@@rachelf5466 I don’t even what Compendium means ( I’m not a native English speaker )
@@nudiustertian3686 a compendium is a collection of information about a certain topic. Encyclopedias, cookbooks, and textbooks are a few examples.
It’s one of those big words that the average person doesn’t use very much, like discombobulated or flabbergasted (both of which mean “surprised”). At least, I don’t hear it much in conversation. 🤷♀️
@@ammitthedevourer7316 You learn something new everyday. Cool.
@@ammitthedevourer7316 Oh okay thank you ! I didn’t know , at least I’m expanding my English vocabulary!
my teacher once told me, "the english language has many rules, but equally, there are as many exceptions."
0:54 How Americans think Brits say of:
As an American I've literally never heard of that stereotype
Once in Year 6, my class teacher AND headteacher didn't know how to spell "pharaoh". They thought it was spelt "pharoah" and when they found out I was right (thank you Google), as a nerd, it had to be one of the most triumphant moments of my life.
I had a similar thing happen when I was debating a classmate whether a cocoon and a chrysalis are the same thing in 4th grade
I like correcting people on diarrhoea because I do bio at uni
@@emmahealy4863 That would sound so strange out of context 😂😂
Oh yeah I once corrected an ELA teacher because they used the wrong “you’re” in 8th grade. One of my greatest accomplishments.
@@MadadhLasrach that surely put a grin on your face all day! 😂😂
I’ve never been in a spelling bee. I remember vaguely that my 1st grade teacher set up a spelling bee for the class. It was planned in advance, and I was so excited to be in it that I made sure to try and get all my work done beforehand. Spelling bee day comes, and I wasn’t allowed to participate because- I quote what my teacher said- “You don’t spell good anyways, so just sit out so you don’t make your team lose.” 7 years old, and I was the only kid singled out while everyone else had fun with some of the easiest words in existence. It’s hard *not* to think that was an intentional jab at my self worth by my teacher.
That is the perfect example of a teacher who DEFINITELY should not be teaching. What a shitty thing to say, especially to a kid so young.
I feel your pain 😞 when I was in Kindergarten I had a teacher who, one day, kept me in the classroom while the other kids were playing outside because I was struggling with my math work and safe to say I was in tears at the end.
Now that I think about it that could be one of the reasons why I absolutely loathe math 😅
That's terrible! That kind of behaviour should disqualify a person from teaching forever.
They may have the job, but that's not a teacher-that's an abuser.
I’m on my way to becoming a teacher, and that story is HORRIFYING. Teachers should never try to hurt a student’s confidence.
I got recommended in the eighth grade for the spelling bee because I read a lot. I warned the teacher recommending me that I was bad at spelling, but agreed to go if only to skip a class. First word I got was “Watermelon.” I psyched myself out of the correct spelling and said “Watermellon” with 2 L’s. Not my proudest moment, but I never misspelt it again lol
Not me, but in a spelling bee, the first kid got the word “building”.
She spelt it, “b u i l d i n g”.
The judge said, “wrong”.
The entire audience went, “hUh?”
The judge then proceeded to say, “it’s spelt, ‘b i l b y’”.
EVERYBODY had heard “building”.
The girl got another chance.
"christmas is a very *spatial* time of year" I would've cried
Took me a few minutes to understand that
i keep hearing with forrest gumps voice lmao
@@Kelso_Belso now you've said that I can't unheard it 😭
This video unearthed one of my most embarrassing memories, where fifth grade me spelled “cork” as “corck” in the very first round of the school spelling bee. Worst part was the fact that my parents had already called these place where I took my music lessons and told them I wouldn't make my usual 6:00pm class that day, since I knew all the hard words... the spelling bee started at 4:00pm, and I was eliminated just 5 minutes later (thankfully they didn't make me go). I ended up crying about it for the rest of the day, and even over a decade later my family still brings it up.
i practiced for about a month straight after winning my class spelling bee only to spell "recommend" as "reccomend" and I still get flashbacks
well hey, at least you didnt forget the r:)
@@miau6451 i misspell “recommend” as “reccommend” all the time
@@miau6451 words with double letters like that ALWAYS trip me up to this day. Is it accross or across? Succeed or suceed? Recommend, reccomend, or reccommend? If it weren't for auto correct and google to double check word spelling quickly, I'd be in trouble.
@@ShinyGoldBacon SO REAL OMG
I lost the very first round of the spelling bee in sixth grade with the word “fiend”. I had seen that word in books plenty of times but never thought to look it up and thought it was pronounced fee-yend
This didn't happen at a spelling bee, but bear with me here. I was given the word "onion," and I said "That's easy. (clears throat) U-"
We did a lot of spelling bees where I’m at, here’s some of my favorite horror stories:
- spelled silent s-i-l-n-t and cried in front of everybody
- got eliminated and accidentally sat on the kid in front of me
- motioned to my mom that i wanted to leave in front of the entire district. repeatedly.
- won the district spelling bee, was in a final spell-off to determine who got to go to regionals. i know how to spell every word they’re throwing out, i’ve got this. i walk up to the mic, they ask me to spell “inaugurate”. my dumb ass spells it inaugura-TION in front of everybody. i get dinged and eliminated, i facepalm on stage, rest my head on the microphone, and dejectedly walk back to my seat
- freaked out so bad over the possibility of me losing the eighth grade spelling bee that my parents agreed to send me to therapy
What do you mean "accidentally sat on the kid in front of me" how do you manage that
THERAPY???? 😭😭😭😭😭😭
BRUH THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT spelling bee trauma 😂😂😂
How do you manage to accidently sit
I like to imagine all those happening simultaneously.
What I remember most is that it turned out one of my friends who literally had straight Ds and Fs and never knew the answer to anything turned out to have near perfect memory for spelling. She was able to spell everything they tried at our middle school
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
How come there is no ' banana ' here? Someone who went banananana...is a legend in these-here -parts.
nakakapagpabagabag
@@aidanaylward9237 i understand this
@@aidanaylward9237 "Worrisome"
I haven't finished the video yet, but it reminds me of the Simpsons where Milhouse's first word in the spelling bee was "choke" and he said "f. Oh God!" And ran off the stage
4:50 this was EXACTLY the story I was THINKING OF when I clicked on this video. This exact thing beat-for-beat happened to someone in my 4th grade spelling bee
I won a spelling bee once and then AFTER I won, they told me I was disqualified because I cried on stage due to an anxiety attack before my first word and they counted that as, like, delaying or something. The girl who won instead was nice though 🤷♀️
EDIT: I never get replies on stuff this is odd haha. Just to clarify everyone was super nice and stuff and I was fine with it. It was apparently in the rules that they should've given me a different word after I calmed down so that I wouldn't have an advantage, and they didn't, and if I remember they offered to like re-do stuff. But I didn't really want to go to the next level of the competition anyway so I didn't care. The runner up was super sweet and we actually became friends haha.
They can ' t Just Disqualify You For having A Panic Attack Like it ' s Not Your fault 💀
thats dumb
That's so bullshit lmao, what the hell were they thinking
Your teacher is a terrible person.
What the fuck.
Being from the UK, I've never done a spelling bee but I am haunted by the spelling test I did when I was little where I spelt during, guring. Especially when I realised after getting it back that all the words were in alphabetical order
don't worry when I was in year eight I spelt mum and bin wrong
Also from the UK - My most embarrassing English moment was during the weekly 'big write'.
We were asked to write a story.
I wrote a story, where a robber broke into the house, and my dad subdued him with a pair of handcuffs "my mum kept in the wardrobe."
9 year old me had seen them, and assumed they were for if we ever got robbed. 💀
such a british mistake
@@MahouKat OH NO XD
Look cover spell write check
I was in the city spelling bee once. One of the words we were to practice was an obscure medical term that wasn't in the Merriam-Webster and was made completely of just x's, y's and z's.
i won the spelling bee at my school.. essentially. i had to spell the word "chloroform". i spelled it, but the judges couldn't hear me spelling it because i talk quietly. instead of asking me to spell it again and speak up they gave the same word to the guy who i was up against (we were the last people in) and he spelled it the exact same way i did and won. fun memories man.
05:25 if the judge cannot pronounce the word then they should not be judging a Spelling-B.
The one time I entered a spelling bee, the judge was an old Indian lady with a very heavy accent. The word was cavalcade, which sounded, the way she pronounced it, like "cattlecade" (which I proceeded to spell out and then lose.)
Dude it’s West Virginia the dude was probably a redneck with a thick accent
@@mo_sea they should get a understandable judge
I won my 5th grade spelling bee with the word "mayonnaise" because I knew it had two "n"s. All the adults I told the story to spelt mayonnaise wrong, and I was overjoyed at the thought that I could spell "mayonnaise" better than a 40-year-old
Thanks, I will remember this
Mayonnaise... mayonaise. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE-
I LOST TO THE WORD MAYONNAISE
Mayonnaise…
NO WONDER MY BRAIN ALWAYS THOUGHT THE WORD WAS INCORRECT!
Mayonnaise
WHAT THE FUCK FUCKING DYSLEXIA
I myself have never fucked up a word in the spelling bee (two-time winner at my old middle school) but I do remember another student fucking up both "absent" and "goggles" both years I was there. She spelled absent like "A-P…D-O-G" and goggles like "G-O-O-L-E-S". I still remember that to this day.
Our spelling bees were comprised of spelling tests to see who knew the most words. In year 7, the second round of our class's spelling bee was peer marked. I swapped with the guy I liked and he apologised in advance if I couldn't read his writing and I said it wasn't an issue. It wasn't, but he had to clarify one of the letters on my test. I am still mortified to this day
Makes me feel better about accidentally spelling “mayor” as “mayer”
Trust me it’s harder to spell things in front of judges and the school.
I also can’t be the only one who slips up with G’s and J’s sometimes
And with the C’s and S’s 😭
I remember having to spell beginning, I took too long saying one of the Ns and the judge thought I added an extra one so I lost
Nah, in 5th grade I spelled subgect instead of subject, didn't even realize until the judge told me to go sit down
I said c instead of K in Korea. I knew how to spell it, I just got nervous. What makes this more embarrassing is that it was just the 6 of us in the spelling bee, our parents, and a few teachers as judges
i know!! you know how to spell the word with ease at any given moment and the second ur on stage u just forget :/
I will never forget losing the spelling bee in 4th grade even though I spelled “recipe” correctly. I don’t know what they thought I said, but the girl behind me spelled it exactly how I did and ended up winning the whole thing. She won free tickets to a roller skating rink and didn’t go because she had other plans. I was poor and would have done just about anything to go to the roller skating rink. It was like 30 years ago and I’m still salty. 😭
@@DadgeCity thanks, sleep-deprived mommy brain 😵💫
why didn't you speak up 😂😂
@@adelebarahma9953 they wouldn’t have believed them. they would’ve just thought they were lying to get the free tickets. which sucks :/
@@imsotiredofthiscrap2341 That's why they should take a recording of the answers to make sure no mistakes are made in judgement.
Also, why are you using the pronoun "they" instead of "she"? Fucking liberals.
Why was my comment removed? Was it reported as a troll post? All I did was criticise "I'm so tired of this crap"'s word choice. I guess that's just what RUclips is. Just silence criticism.
I live in Colombia and my school used to do spelling bees.
Problem was, whenever I got up to the stage, the person saying the words mispronounced them ON PURPOSE.
He did that to me 3 years in a row, making it one of the reasons I left.
5:39 pretty sure he spelled it how he typed it. That's wrong, it's actually bric-a-brac
This really feels like what it would be like if auto-correct existed in real life.
YOU. HOW ARE YOU EVERYWHERE?
DONG TOUCH GRASS
Once went to a showing of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" where they seeded the spellers with random audience members. They gave one lady "Mexican," clearly thinking (and hoping) she'd last another round like they needed for the plot. She improvised and asked for a definition, use in a sentence, everything to ham it up. Audience ate it up. She immediately misspelled it. Her look of genuine shock was even funnier than anything she did on purpose.
That happened in my school production too! We were all confused about what to do. I think they missed the C.
One time we had a spelling bee like a tournament, and one kid in my class beat the class spelling bee, the grade spelling bee, and got to the school spelling bee, and he got 3rd in the district and got this HUGE trophy. Props to Ronin.
at my district spelling bee, i was given a word that nobody in the audience or any of the competitors had even heard before, let alone knew how to spell. the word was cabal and the proctor kept saying “cobble”. it was the second round. i ran offstage in tears.
I'm dyslexic but didn't know it until my early 20's. I purposely got out on the first round every spelling bee because I was too embarrassed to try and be wrong in front of everyone.
Worked like a charm.
So you didn't want to be wrong in front of everyone, by intentionally being wrong in front of everyone??
@@Liggliluff I made it obvious I wasn't trying bu just going "abcqrx35" and sitting down.
You were forced to participate??
@@MALEXISAL Yes? Was that uncommon?
@@MALEXISAL most schools do that
I just realized that people who speak english as their first language understand/see english language differently. In finnish everything is written as it's said, so I also use it when practicing/reading english words. Everything sounds the same so I never understood why spelling contests even existed, it'd be too easy.
here are some examples: pineapple
THE 3 BLOODY THEIR’S
The fact so many native english speakers in this video mixed up J and G, and it’s perfectly understandable 💀 If someone did that in Finnish they'd be laughed out of the country, that’s like mixing up K and S or something, but English? “No, we pronounce them the same sometimes, but not always :)”
@@JasminMiettunen samé with czech
Same with Serbian
@@insertunoroginalnamehere6189 just all slavic languages practicali
I won my school’s spelling bee (in my grade at least) for four years in a row before I quit. One of my fond memories is when I moved on to the County Bee in first grade and misspelled “crying.” I had written it down on paper right, then changed my mind and said “criing.” Another time, I forgot the word “court” existed, and spelled it “cort.” I genuinely couldn’t remember what the word meant.
i won a spelling bee in fourth grade, mind you I had never seen a spelling bee before, but when the teacher asked me what my winning word was, I paused and said "thank you...?"
We were made to enter a school spelling bee, they'd put the top spellers in the classes against eachother in a school assembly later in the month. So our class did a mini spelling bee to see who to send up, and I was doing really well, but as the number of people standing at the front of the class started dwindling, I got really anxious. I didn't want to compete in the final spelling bee infront of the school if I felt that anxious just in front of my class, so when it was my turn to spell "tomato" I decided to chicken out and add an 'e' on the end so I could be disqualified and sit down. What I didn't think about was how the class would laugh at me spelling 'tomato' wrong, which made me feel even more anxious! At least I didn't have a chance to win and do it all again in front of the whole school :')
All I see is a missed opportunity for overcoming your anxiety
Yeah in hindsight I probably should've stuck with it, however I was a kid and wanted to take - what I thought - was the easy way out :')
Just a question, is H pronounced as aytch or haytch?
@@deactivatedHonda I live in one of the few places where it's "haytch", and I'm glad I do. I hate dropping H's, so I'm not going to do it in the very name of the letter itself. Imagine pronouncing any other letter without it's own sound.
I empathize with this, because in elementary school they were trying to find kids that could sing in the school choir. I thought if I sang even decently, I would be forced to do it. That idea made me so nervous that I purposely sang as terribly as I could so I would fail the audition and go back to class.
I’m honestly pretty proud of my 3rd grade self for making it as far as I did in my spelling bee. I got out on the word “truculently”.
Me, a soon to be senior in high school: *frantically looks up word*
I thought the word was pronounced "trusulently" before seeing it was "trukulently".
Altho tbf, I never really understood that one catchphrase to do with the pronuncation of in certain positions as a kid. Only later when I went into researching phonetics in my freetime did I understand. I didn't have any spelling bees afaik but I felt pretty good at my spelling as a kid.
the fuck is a truculently?????
@@TheRealCoffinDancer According to Merriam-Webster, it means "ready and willing to fight or quarrel"
@@aidanaylward9237 hm
I saw a kid get "eliminated" for spelling his name wrong. His name was Ben. He realized his mistake and started crying and just went home for the day.
3:24 technically, exceptable is a word, but it's uncommon and so it's fair it doesn't count
Honestly, I wonder how Matt’s neighbors react when he starts making his videos/voice over, especially when he pronounces the “ADFHDGSHSGS” stuff.
Hopefully he has a soundproof room
and the times hes screaming SKULL EMOOJIIIII
AH SCEERORS
I still have vivid memory of a classroom spelling bee were I was like "oh I'm too lazy to bother with this, I'll just flunk out on purpose, sit back down, and just chill while everyone else does their thing."
But then I thought, "the teacher will probably get mad at me for obviously flunking by spelling a word like 'Apple' with a 'Z' at the beginning. I need to make it not so obvious that I want to fail this."
So I started to spell the words correctly, while in the back of my head figuring out a letter I could replace while making it reasonable that I would mistake the two. By the time I had a letter I could replace reasonably I'd already spelled the word in full correctly.
This went on for a while until it was me and two other kids, I had failed to fail myself for so long that I was now in third place for my whole class. At this point I thought to myself, "huh, maybe I should try. I'm already third I could probably beat them both, seems easy enough." So I decided to actually try as apposed to intentionally attempting to fail myself.
It gets back to my turn and I've finally decided to try. The first word that I actually gave my full attention to: "30, spell 30."
"T-h-i-r- ... d."
Immediately failed as soon as I bothered to care. Moral of the story: don't try anything ever, you'll just fail if you do.
I lost a spelling bee to the word “Veloute”.
Veloute.
A French word.
In an ENGLISH SPELLING BEE.
VELOUTE.
I will never forget my English department for that
My heart goes out to lil bro that spelt it correctly and "corrected" himself out of winning the spelling bee
spelled
@@esdigital5259 both are correct, i think.
@@anonymouscheesepie3768 so you can use both in a spelling bee round?
@@anonymouscheesepie3768 Spelt is a word but it's not the past tense of spell.
@@Owen_loves_Butters spelt
/spelt/
verb BRITISH
past and past participle of spell
2:48 - "Ya like gazz?"
I CACKLED
There you go ⚫️💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
Gazz is "see".
I almost choked.
🌔🌕🌖🌓🌕🌗🌒🌕🌘🌑
Gas
I WAS DISQUALIFIED IN A SPELLING BE BECAUSE THEY MISHEARD ME
After winning my elementary school's Spelling Bee in 5th Grade, I participated once again in 6th great and got to the top 4. Then I got the word "Problem", and out of sheer stress accidentally spelled it "promblem" - TWICE.
Now, in my elementary school you wouldn't get immediately disqualified once you get one word wrong, instead after the end of each round the judges decide who moves on to the next round and then announce it. I wasn't very focused during the announcement, and the next thing I heard was my entire class cheering my name so I assumed I passed and joined the line with the other finalists. Then when my turn came the judge looked at me and said "Wait, what are you doing here? You were disqualified!"
Needless to say I cried quite a bit that day.
I'll never forget when I participated in a General Knowledge competition (each school had two teams). The first section was a spelling bee, but they had a non-english speaker read the words, because of this, many pronunciations were wrong, but this especially came into play when my school's first team got given the word "symmetry", but the person announcing the words pronounced it as "cemetery." You can imagine the confusion when it was incorrect...
Yeah, How do you even become the speaker even though your english is below average?
That's like asking a tone deaf person to give an example of a song.
Never got spelling bees over in the UK but I remember in primary school I was always good at spelling since I was 'a gifted kid' and one week we had a bunch of increasingly harder spelling tests at the end of which I ended up getting the top score on each one, and a bunch of the other kids were moaning about how a foreign kid did better than them.
Not only do I realise now that that's kind of discriminatory with how weirdly angry some of them were about it, I still stand by my confusion that at least half the class didn't even get half marks on the first test, which were all 3 letter words like CAT and DOG and LEG.
Maybe the reason I got better marks was because I didn't use the entirety of another kid's whiteout pen to draw on my arm and then try to tell on them for sharpening pencils, ELLIS.
Cat, dog, leg? I question little children these days. And all children my age, for they don't like or haven't even read The Hunger Games. They don't like reading! Your confusion was rightfully there!
moaning? SKULL EMOJI
but seriously, anyone with a dirty mind, get outta here
@@somerandomhandle but if you thought of the word being used in that context... what does that make you
@@brightblackhole2442 i've already saw a dirty-minded reply section on a comment that used the word "moaning" not in THAT context
so i kinda warned people while being "dirty-minded"
Ellis is out there in the world right now and has no idea we're making fun of them.
My best friend was in the spelling bee. She was close to winning the 3rd (or 4th? She told me that she can’t exactly remember) spelling bee. Her word was gemstone, but she accidentally spelled it with a j instead of a g. That moment’s been stuck with her for years.
My grandmother has lived in West Virginia most of her life and her pronunciation of "special" like "spatial" was my first realization that she had an accent
losing a spelling bee because of a boner is actually the premise for an entire musical. 25th annual putnam county spelling bee by william finn, an evergreen classic
Poor Chip
that was the joke I think
That's not the whole premise, it's the premise of a couple songs
@@decent_random If it’s the basis for more than one song then it’s at least a theme.
@@XanderHarris1023 sure, its a reccuring idea. a premise is the 'main idea of the plot'
We had a highschool spelling bee, in order to get everyone warmed up and familiar with the structure they gave a practice round with very easy words.
One kid got the word "Deer" and went "Deer. D-E-R. Deer."
It was and accident and I am sure he was nervous. Everyone had a laugh and the judges were kind enough to let him stay in to which after that word he did very well. Made it to the final 3 even.
good ending
I won a spelling bee in second grade because the last kid (smartest in the grade, he would have won if not for this) forgot to say the word before spelling it, which made me very happy at the time but thinking back it was quite sad. We were using big words too, he was doing quite well up against me and the other 22 kids in my class. I won a little plastic bee wearing a graduation cap that's sitting somewhere in a drawer now, so that's nice.
I had my very first spelling bee last week. I got it wrong and then said straight into the microphone "shit. WAIT NO WAIT NO NO NO KAYLA WHY NO GOD NO I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!!"
I once lost a 5th grade spelling bee because of the word “weather”.
I spelled it as “whether”, and it haunted me that I never bothered to ask for the context of the word, I just charged in like little miss know-it-all 😢😮😊.
Homophones are unfair in spelling bees
@@Owen_loves_Butters Agreed 👍
i misspelled “barbecue” as “barbeque” during a spelling bee once. it’s been a decade, and i’m still salty that it wasn’t accepted as an alternate spelling.
People who spell it with a q should be flogged.
@Transistor Jump If it was spelled with a q, it'd be pronounced "barbek".
@@DadgeCity my good friend have you heard, seen, or otherwise received information about the word "queue"
5:50 that is easy to spell: T-H-A-T
😂
@@Supercalifragalisticexplialid-dang i got rickrolled by a username
@@G.f0rtun3 😈
*mischievously laughs*
One of my friends went into a year 3 spelling bee, like a competition, it meant something at the time, and she got the word “ballot” and she lost because she spelt it “ballet” and she didn’t believe me when I told her I knew how to spell it, she said “you’re just saying that because you know how to spell it now” but I actually did know how to spell it lmao 💀💀
Where I live in Canada we don't have spelling bees, and thank fuck for that. These nightmares sound traumatic as fuck for kids with anxiety disorders and/or learning disorders. In my elementary school, we had spelling tests instead, where the teacher would go through a list of words and all the students would write them down on their own pieces of paper to try and spell them correctly. I always got perfect scores because I read lots of books (remember reading books? I wish I still had the enthusiasm for it). My ability to spell is very good, but get me to spell something out loud and there's a good chance I'll fuck it up like the poor chaps in the video. It's like the ability to spell something on paper is in a different part of the brain from the ability to spell something out loud.
I live in Canada but I wish we _did_ have spelling bees, spelling was like the one thing I was ever good at 😭
i LOVED english and i had horrific anxiety on account of the bullying so spelling tests were so much fun. my biggest flex was in 3rd grade when i spent like a week making a storage system in minecraft so extensive i think i typed the word miscellaneous like 50 times, so when i get the very same word on my spelling test the next day i FREAKED OUT. saw the panicked expressions on half the class like YESSS WEEP
“Ya like gazz?” Has me laughing SO hard! 🤣
In reception (age 4) I wrote a story about Bob the plecmn.
I only figured out what Bob was supposed to be bc he had a blue hat. He was Bob, the _policeman._
5th grade. Didn’t even get past the regionals because my anxious self misspelled “vertebrate” as VERTIBREAT 😭😭 and I claimed to LOVE science. 💀
When I was in 5th grade, a girl in my class actually went to the spelling bee nationals. She ended up spelling “stereotypical” as “stereotipical”.
Later in 6th grade a kid misspelled funnel somehow and half the class got taken out by the word “hangar”, thinking the word was “hanger”.
Stupid y’s hanging around words acting like i’s.
I did not know that was a homophone pair.
I always that the airplane storage thingy was a ‘hanger’.
I will never forget this one. I remember participating in my school’s spelling bee in 4th grade. I was one of 4 people left and when I went up, the word they gave me was Watermelon. I go, w-a-t-e-r-E-m-e-l-o-n. The teachers told me I had gotten it wrong. I asked why as I was confident I had correctly spelled it. They told me about that damned extra E I put and I just faceplamed my way off stage. I told my mom and sister and they laughed and made up a joke. Whenever we would buy watermelon at the store, they would always call it Water-EH-melon. I was absolutely scarred for a few years, embarrassed that I had misspelled a word as simple as WATERMELON, let alone being in 4TH GRADE!!! But in the end, I found it to be hilarious.
wadereymelOn
I would die if my family kept on reminding/joking my mistakes
I remember we did a spelling game as a class and i would laugh when some other kids made silly mistakes.......and then i lost to the word "Loaf" 💀
canadian watermelon be like
There was one kid in one of my elementary school spelling bees who started "raspberry" as "R-A-Z." His face dropped when he realized his mistake, and he didn't even finish spelling the word. I feel bad for him to this day, especially because that's how "raspberry" is pronounced. He was also one of the smartest kids in my grade.
To be fair, I'm a grown-ass adult and sometimes I still get thrown for a loop with "scissors". How many Cs? How many Ss? Only my spellcheck knows.
I once lost in a spelling bee when I incorrectly spelt carriage. I don't remember how I spelt it but I vividly remember that it was one of the first time I had heard that word. I probably spelt it like C-a-r-r-a-g-e
As a frequent spelling bee participant in school, I absolutely loved this hahaha. The “spatial” one reminds me of a time I watched a kid lose on “salmon” lol. I couldn’t help but feel like it was some bullshit even though “sammon” is the correct pronunciation lol
Also maybe that one kid’s “tounge” was too short and they later went to HealthTap for answers
I lost on "primer" because they pronounced it PRIMMER. WHO SAYS IT LIKE THAT
Why the frick is tongue spelled like that
@@awildgalvantulaappeared81 Because "ge" is a soft g so it needs the "u" to keep it hard.
I wonder if spelling bees are really a thing in other languages, because English has so many words that just aren't spelled the way they sound and that doesn't seem to be quite as common in other languages (not that I know the 7000+ languages spoken, so who knows)
@@bigawesomewatermelon9511 Valid point, but it could've just been spelled "tung."