In May 2014, a scientist at Bing (Microsoft's search engine) posted a blog post, talking about Microsoft's association with an annual American event. The post begins as follows:
"When spellcheck first became popular, there was somewhat of an elegiacal interlocutory fracas by those who practiced the antediluvian deification of autochthonous language and viewed a deteriorating emphasis on canonical spelling as an almost sacrilegious demarche against the euonym and akin to vivisepulture."
What was the event?
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee competition - most of the long words used in the post were 'winning words' correctly spelt by past winners. (We can't spell them right even as we look at them!). Here's
the post. As usual, a child of Indian origin won, but there was
a twist (sting?) in the tale.
This day last year: Q.974