Category: spelling...

winning a spelling bee
the telecast of the National Spelling Bee
Noah Webster introduced some simplifications that have become accepted in American English
English spelling is based for the most part on that of the 15th century but pronunciation has changed considerably since then; since Samuel Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, orthography (spelling) has remained fairly stable
Noah Webster's American Spelling Book (1783) has never been out of print and total sales are over 100 million
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. (A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh)
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half.... I never write "metropolis" for seven cents, because I can get the same money for "city." I never write "policeman," because I can get the same price for "cop." ... I never write "valetudinarian" at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. (Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens])