We dropped the ‘bus’ sound long ago when saying the word, but in spelling the ‘b’ was kept. Climban is an Anglo Saxon word and we get the word clamber and the word climb from it.

Welcome to today’s Spelling Bee forum ... Center letter is in bold. d g i l n o p WORDS: 43, POINTS: 232, PANGRAMS: 2, BINGO Two letter list: di-11 do-14 Be kind. Comments are moderated for ...

B-E-A-R is normal bear ... It's important to take extra care when spelling words which sound similar. These are called homophones. Examples include ‘their’ and ‘there’.

Nehem bested last year's grand champion, Centerville Middle School student Dale Winand, by correctly spelling the word "kiloton," meaning a unit of explosive power equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.