New York magazine has perhaps an unintentionally meaningful article on the latest “Scripps National Spelling Bee”, during which co-winners Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam “tackled obscure and impossible words like myrmotherine, pyrrhuloxia, hippocrepiform, and sprachgefühl.” Is it rude to point out that 1) only two of these words can even remotely be considered English, 2)…
