The Washington Post
The Washington Post’s “assistant managing editor for humiliation” assigned Steve Hendrix to cover the Scripps National Spelling Bee. “I read millions of words a year, write them by the thousands and still misspell at a clip of about a clunker per line,” Hendrix writes. He says he was once “invited to a neurology lab at Yale University” because “Scientists wanted to know how a professional writer who adores words can be so completely awful at spelling them.”
Hendrix promises to send “dangerously spelled dispatches from the auditorium” at the Scripps Bee, whose preliminary rounds began Wednesday. Perhaps mercifully, Hendrix has thus far refrained from tweeting about the event.
