Rechtschreibungsbiene

(I have no idea if that title is a real word, but when I entered "spelling bee" into a free translator it's what came out.)

I was a bit surprised to read this morning to see that both the winning word ("ursprache") and the word that knocked out the second-place finisher ("weltschmerz") in the big US spelling bee were of Germanic origin. Suffice it to say that most Americans are not very up on anything sounding remotely German (I'll bet they would have had a tougher time with something like "weltanschauung"). I don't have anything else remotely of interest to add here except to once again highly recommend the documentary "Spellbound", especially if you were a bit of a geek like I was in school.