Spelling Bee horror stories

[@ce7624]

I witnessed a kid forget their _own name_ at the beginning and then go on to WIN THE WHOLE THING. It was beautiful.

[@writingisfun9842]

Kind of reminds me how I forgot my name and said the person who just said their name as I was caught off guard.

[@inplane9970]

They really pulled a Spongebob, dumping every irrelevant piece of information out of their brain and filling it with spelling bee words.

[@Felony10]

I wrote the name of the girl in front of me during our final exams... I was in 9th grade...

[@Ra1ndr0p]

In kindergarten I somehow thought my friend’s name was Rocky and she wouldn’t respond and I got mad then at the END OF THE YEAR.. the teacher goes “Alright you try (not here for privacy, this is rOcKy)”, and I was like “I never heard of a (not here for privacy), and then ROCKY STOOD UP AND I WAS SO EMBARASSED

[@MintsyMilky]

1k

[@MoonWielder]

The fact that one person who was supposed to spell the word “fork” got a second chance to spell it correctly, and still spelled it the same way before, is hilarious.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

Could have spelled it like the expletive and gotten escorted off the stage and slapped with a two-week suspension, but no Edit: As I type this, the likes count is at the funny number, whoever makes it 70 will mess it up

[@phyllistaylor3087]

*F O R C K*

[@leona067]

ya'll get second chances?

[@CreeperCart]

@@leona067 y'all get spelling bees?

[@jameson8682]

My son has Asperger's. The whole time growing up, when I would try to get him to spell a word or do a math problem he would do that. You could ask him a question, get the wrong answer, explain what the right answer is, ask again, and again get the exact same wrong answer. Repeat, oh say 7 times or so for each question. That boy almost killed me.

[@nathanagarwal1378]

I won my spelling bee in elementary school and the students complained that it "didn't count because I was indian". 15 years later, I still think about this

[@M1551NGN0]

Then did the jury scolded them for racism or they did the typical American thing? Did you win or not?

[@MrChummington]

​@@M1551NGN0...What makes you assume they were American?

[@M1551NGN0]

@@MrChummington because spelling bees happen only/mostly in America? And honestly it's only America/Britain/Australia where there is racism against India

[@rtixboi]

@@M1551NGN0 The worst racism happens outside of America

[@M1551NGN0]

@@rtixboi might be, like in Australia or UK, but in this specific case about a spell bee, my guess was USA because that's where most spell bees happen, isn't it?

[@khaelkugler]

The girl who correctly spelled "slay" instead of "sleigh" should be forgiven

[@tictacmothma]

No, according to spelling bee rules, if a word has a homophone, it is the speller's responsibility to be aware of the homophone and to ask for a definition or sentence before they spell it.

[@Toomototo]

@@tictacmothmai think theyre making a joke about the word slay being popular in meme culture and stan twitter

[@Keaton427]

@@tictacmothma She got sent to the principal's office dude 😭

[@AnthonyBlas-r6l]

She probably got sent to the principal's office because slay actually means kill (a person or animal) in a violent way.

[@jessicastjames6202]

To be fair to the sleigh-slay person, the fact that they got confused about which word it was means their spelling bee was extremely poorly run, so the "mistake" wasn't their fault. Actual spelling bees are supposed to use the word in a sentence to eliminate the chance of confusion between similar words. If you can't be bothered to do that, then you don't get to use words that sound exactly identical to others.

[@domino-dude]

in mine, you had to ask for the word to be used in a sentence. homophones were a nightmare, especially if you _didn't know_ a word was a homophone

[@staticradio724]

Would have helped that kid who spelled "spatial" too lol

[@insertcreativenamehere492]

@@domino-dudea good rule of thumb was to always ask for sentence, definition, and word origin

[@STUMAHA]

​@@insertcreativenamehere492mine was fifty years ago. I only knew about the sentence option 😂

[@insertcreativenamehere492]

@@STUMAHA oof yeah that sucks

[@roygribbleston619]

We don't do spelling bees at all here in Poland far as I know but one time few years back my class was taken to an event showcasing American culture and one of the fun games they made us do was a mock spelling bee, just, you know, for funsies, as a group activity. Thing is most of them kids barely spoke english, so I sort of ended up doing all of the words by myself. The people running the whole thing had no idea what to do with me but they felt bad about not having any prizes prepared so they gave me some random book they happened to have in one of their offices, about dancing styles in American history. I still have that book somewhere.

[@chix1337]

In Poland there's dyktando instead where you have to write what you're hearing because letters like rz and ż sound the same and people often get those wrong. I participated in a national one when I was still a kid and won a tablet.

[@roygribbleston619]

@@chix1337 Oh, don't remind me of podstawówka days...

[@missyandere1647]

I love Polish people

[@redRuxx]

POLSKI P O L S K I P. O. L. S. K. I! P O L S K I. polski PoLSkI ₚₒₗₛₖᵢ

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@@redRuxx are you alright? need an ambulance?

[@nemonthelemon]

I love the absolute passion in Matt’s voice when he sees a skull emoji. I need it in this video

[@BookApocalypse]

Lol...

[@mesiroy1234]

Mat was weak toady

[@dazcarrr]

and when theres CAPITALISED WORDS

[@Pnc531]

Skuhull emogi

[@kell_ceooftomlas]

Ikr

[@boi9074]

Once in my middle school spelling bee I got up to second place spelling words like “controversial” and “chlorophyll” but ended up losing on the word “delicious” and it it burned into my mind to this day.

[@kiseki8351]

That judge that pronounced "special" as "spatial" invoked a forbidden rage in me

[@bwc1976]

Same. I also remember tons of teachers in Texas who pronounced else "elts".

[@kingdraconis1281]

If that had happened to me, I would have actually gone feral.

[@一二三十三二一]

I laughed so hard at that

[@gnbman]

Accents really are a funny thing. You never know when they're going to trip you up.

[@Anonymous-73]

I actually would told them to go fuck themselves after that

[@eleanorelliott]

My dad was in a spelling bee in 5th grade. He misspelled a word on purpose so he could leave, but the teacher knew and made him stay in. So he was determined to win it after his teacher got mad at him, and he won, both of them scowling at each other as his teacher hands him his trophy.

[@writingisfun9842]

What a nice, sweet story!

[@connorconnor1631]

lmao

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Thumbs up for your dad!

[@Detective_depther]

W

[@eyweiuai]

this comment went from 417 likes to 418 likes when I went to look at the replies, and I just made it 419 likes

[@Devour_ment]

I lost a spelling bee on the 2nd round at the word "star." The embarrassment of spelling out "S-a-r-t" in front of an audience will always haunt me.

[@turkey_sandwhich]

just b e happy you didn't put a h inside

[@G.C_McCrea]

​@@turkey_sandwhichs h a r t

[@Gengar-2]

*s a r t*

[@bigepicmanthatlovesfunands4477]

Sart

[@ItsCatfy]

I live in Colombia and my school used to do spelling bees. Problem was, whenever I got up to the stage, the person saying the words mispronounced them ON PURPOSE. He did that to me 3 years in a row, making it one of the reasons I left.

[@jacobwilliamson3621]

Hi Matt, I'm the plaid shirt guy in the intro, and now I'm an organizer of pro-level bees. I've got a crazy one for you from the elite ranks. I know a guy who last year missed "pau", a Hawaiian word, in round 1 of the preliminaries of the spelling world championship system, as "p-a-o". A year later, this dude went for over 60 rounds in the finals and is currently the world champion.

[@estebson]

0:15 for those looking for the specific person. Also, really interesting how 1 word can really make the difference between "disqualified first round" and "world champion".

[@wbaba34]

Thats cool! Lol

[@sakkikoyumikishi]

​@@estebson... which is exactly why the rest of the world doesn't really consider it a competition, lol No hate to those that enjoy it as a hobby, but it's way too luck based to really work as something you can have champions about. You don't have competitions about rolling dice for the same reason 😅

[@estebson]

@@sakkikoyumikishi Honestly, I'd say it's mostly skill based. Like sure, you have to hope that you get a word you know, but that's exactly why you train yourself on a large array of words, their contexts, etc. Not to mention the incredible task of maintaining yourself under pressure, especially the further up you go. If we can have championships on Scrabble and casino games, I don't see why spelling bee championships would be any different, especially in a language as grammatically volatile and diverse as English.

[@ufohoh]

yooooo it's the kabaragoya kid, it's insane to think famous spelling bee meme kids are in their 20s now doing amazing things :)

[@avathenerd]

i got pretty close to winning the spelling bee in the 5th grade, my word was, “beautiful” and i spelled it perfectly. But one of the judges heard it wrong and disqualified me. Then about 4 minutes later i hear “there’s been a mistake” and i was called back on stage. After being welcomed back, they gave me the word, Aztec and i spelled it, “a - s - s - t- e- c”. not my proudest moment.

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

I'm 16 and still struggle to spell beautiful lmao

[@heavenlydusk]

Asstech Highly qualified technology for your butt

[@alwaysinseptember11]

HELP

[@angeltheweirdo]

I want to fight the person who put an a in beautiful.

[@wnuzbiwat]

the only reason i can spell beautiful is because i think of those lines from Bruce Almighty whenever spelling it

[@asleepyb0i400]

I’ve never been in a spelling bee. I remember vaguely that my 1st grade teacher set up a spelling bee for the class. It was planned in advance, and I was so excited to be in it that I made sure to try and get all my work done beforehand. Spelling bee day comes, and I wasn’t allowed to participate because- I quote what my teacher said- “You don’t spell good anyways, so just sit out so you don’t make your team lose.” 7 years old, and I was the only kid singled out while everyone else had fun with some of the easiest words in existence. It’s hard *not* to think that was an intentional jab at my self worth by my teacher.

[@Haley-ne6or]

That is the perfect example of a teacher who DEFINITELY should not be teaching. What a shitty thing to say, especially to a kid so young.

[@Nutella2004]

I feel your pain 😞 when I was in Kindergarten I had a teacher who, one day, kept me in the classroom while the other kids were playing outside because I was struggling with my math work and safe to say I was in tears at the end. Now that I think about it that could be one of the reasons why I absolutely loathe math 😅

[@NoriMori1992]

That's terrible! That kind of behaviour should disqualify a person from teaching forever.

[@sophiegrey9576]

They may have the job, but that's not a teacher-that's an abuser.

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

I’m on my way to becoming a teacher, and that story is HORRIFYING. Teachers should never try to hurt a student’s confidence.

[@Junebug_Hearts_U]

3rd grade, they asked me to spell ‘Don’t’ I said ‘D-O-N-T’ And they almost excluded me because I didn’t put an apostrophe. Oh and they didn’t say punctuations were required!

[@bigepicmanthatlovesfunands4477]

“D-O-N-apostrophe-T

[@Rosiewolfie23]

ones like these are insane i don't understand how anyone can think that you need to say the punctuations 💀 especially when you say words, you don't verbally say the punctuation, writing maybe but spelling that's just weird

[@audreyanderson6616]

I was in a spelling bee one year where I made it super far in before losing. But then after I got eliminated the people running the spelling bee thought it was going on too long and switched to another list that none of us had ever studied, starting from the easiest words first. I still feel cheated that I lost to a hard word while the remaining kids got words like "viper."

[@ayoutubeaccounthere]

Do you remember the word you had?

[@ggundercover3681]

I felt this. The fact that it's allowed is just cheating. Can't stand when they switch lists

[@audreyanderson6616]

@@ayoutubeaccounthere No, but I had done well in previous spelling bees so I felt bitter over it. I remember my mom said it was a trickier one that she thought I should have studied more

[@maevemilless4561]

I had this happen to me once, I got anti-inflammatory while my friend got jelly

[@kaleidoscope5054]

RIGHT! First round district spelling bee I got bungalow. The next kid got nightingale. I was mad his was so much easier. Edit: I guess it wasn't that much easier. I might have misremember and mine wasn't bungalow, but it was something odd sounding odd never heard before.

[@ForestofCicadas]

I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that when you're standing there and everyone is staring at you, with a look of expectation, the nerves really get to you. I was the nerdy kid who could already read and write in preschool and was basically a walking encyclopedia of dinosaurs. When I was in middle school, I got into the spelling bee, was the first person up, the nerves got to me, and I blanked. I don't even remember it, I just remember that I was immediately disqualified. It doesn't matter how much you've studied, they never prepare you for dozens of people staring at you.

[@writingisfun9842]

I agree with this. We learned to write in preschool, and maybe sound some things out, but if you were writing with eligible, smallish handwriting, I applaud that. But what kind of reading could you do?

[@Sticknub]

Another thing people seem to forget is how different spelling the word aloud is from writing it down and actually seeing it, it really messes with your brain for some reason

[@garfieldpullsallthehotties]

I constantly got top grades on reading and writing and when we did speeches instead of a SB I said ‘Consider’ as ‘Cinsider’ and got tongue tied from fright and cried myself off the stage.

[@writingisfun9842]

@chinsaw2727 In the long run, maybe. I've been the representative speller for a few years now. My speaking skills still suck.

[@writingisfun9842]

@@Sticknub A lot of people forget this. I am one of those people who can tell a word is misspelled by looking at it, but I have trouble with conversations where people spell out loud. It's just hard to follow when you hear it.

[@bossbabyricky]

Everyone can collectively agree how cool Matt is and how odd it is that he can easily pronounce such odd words and also such difficult keyboard smashes [Edit: I am so sorry everyone, I mean coll 😔]

[@nemonthelemon]

I agree as a newcomer to his channel

[@FernLake]

HEY PRONOUNCE THIS AUCSAFAWHFSBSBTSGEGS6IA7WRA 💀 Edit: Can't forget the 💀

[@KawaiiPandass123]

@@nemonthelemon you’ll see a lot of this 😂

[@nemonthelemon]

@@KawaiiPandass123 Atleast it’s going to be a good source for entertainment 😂

[@kell_ceooftomlas]

True

[@Nico_DiAngelo]

I once lost a spelling bee because my word was either slay or sleigh. I asked which version of the word they were talking about and the judge just said “well what do you think?” I guess they forgot that “slay” was an actual word and not just slang for awesome. I spelled s l a y and i got it wrong. The judge even muttered (into her mic) that “todays youth is too addicted to technology” and that if i just got off my phone more then maybe i could have won

[@SageGilbert191]

They really gotta evaluate these judges man

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

Honestly, if I was in the shoes of that kid who spelled "spatial" because of the judge's speech impediment, it would be borderline impossible for me to not get violent at that judge.

[@kohlsnofl5110]

I mean... good luck handling an adult as a child. I get the frustration, but really?

[@Nyxluulxyn]

@@kohlsnofl5110kids are strong asf and some adults are just weak asf

[@lizardlord6560]

​@@kohlsnofl5110yes

[@MatecaCorp]

@@kohlsnofl5110 you really think a grown man presenting at a spelling bee would fight back against a kid?

[@CRAGONS]

This happened to me...

[@JackieOwl94]

I remember getting into a fight over the word “annihilation” when trying to qualify for my school spelling bee, arguing that it indeed had an “h” in it. I was eliminated and then found it spelled the exact way I did in the dictionary, even though the teacher who had a doctorate said no. My mom stormed over there that afternoon. I was never questioned or doubted by that teacher again.

[@lizardlord6560]

Good

[@josearmortegah8093]

A good ending. Refreshing!

[@meowymeowz1604]

angry mothers are terrifying

[@EndertheDragon0922]

Good on your mom! Some of these stories were so infuriating so it’s nice to hear that your mom had your back on this

[@annierichardson5296]

That’s something like what happened to me in 7th grade. I got the word “archaeology,” and being an archaeology nerd, I knew the word well and rattled it off only to be told that I was wrong. The teachers were using a booklet of words from a local newspaper that was sponsoring the spelling bee, and had printed the word as “archology.” I complained and said I knew I had spelled “archaeology” correctly, but it was wrong on the list and none of the 3 teachers there could spell it, so I was eliminated.

[@AkumuVids]

Waiting for the day Matt pronounces a keyboard smash and then all of his furniture starts floating.

[@D415Y-x0]

soon, my friend. the pieces of the puzzle are all coming together. he must be ready. he must prepare. he must run.

[@justforplaylists6375]

my brother in christ, I'm pretty sure it's already happened by now

[@spreest9537]

It's LeviOsa, not LeviosA.

[@TheCarpet-]

Huh???

[@gunmancarl9618]

@@spreest9537 You gotta pronouce the gar

[@ItzDaMagz]

That, "You like, GAZZ?" with the bee movie reference was just hysterical. Well done.👏👏

[@Draco1660gfx]

"i cried in front of the whole school" i felt that

[@adammac.1342]

Are you ok?

[@leona067]

same here

[@ferociouslioness]

Same here

[@emmahealy4863]

My parents would've thrown hands with the teachers of one of these stupid mistakes had happened to me and it wasn't my fault 😅

[@GROUNDHOGCULT]

My aunt told about how once she was drunk with her friends and(they were at a club) they decided to play spelling bee there by them selves.The word was tomato,her friend said "B-E-B-A-T-O" and one dude screamed "YOU DUMBASSES IT'S O-M-O-T-A"him and her friend argued for an hour.They have 3 kids now

[@darkiusmc979]

That is the best way that story could have ended.

[@fivetopoint]

iconic as hell

[@luissantiagomijareso.2450]

The ending-

[@gingermcgingin4106]

How do the kids spell tomato?

[@SilentBeaver]

@@gingermcgingin4106 omobebato

[@englishmuffinpizzas]

What I remember most is that it turned out one of my friends who literally had straight Ds and Fs and never knew the answer to anything turned out to have near perfect memory for spelling. She was able to spell everything they tried at our middle school

[@canorth1057]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[@ro5538]

How come there is no ' banana ' here? Someone who went banananana...is a legend in these-here -parts.

[@aidanaylward9237]

nakakapagpabagabag

[@psychanii9768]

@@aidanaylward9237 i understand this

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

​@@aidanaylward9237 "Worrisome"

[@sorurus7552]

It wasn’t a spelling bee but a Pi Day number memorization contest, I saw someone say “2.14159”

[@Heisenberger_69]

hell nah😭

[@RandomandNoice]

Once in Year 6, my class teacher AND headteacher didn't know how to spell "pharaoh". They thought it was spelt "pharoah" and when they found out I was right (thank you Google), as a nerd, it had to be one of the most triumphant moments of my life.

[@andrewfortmusic]

I had a similar thing happen when I was debating a classmate whether a cocoon and a chrysalis are the same thing in 4th grade

[@emmahealy4863]

I like correcting people on diarrhoea because I do bio at uni

[@RandomandNoice]

@@emmahealy4863 That would sound so strange out of context 😂😂

[@MadadhLasrach]

Oh yeah I once corrected an ELA teacher because they used the wrong “you’re” in 8th grade. One of my greatest accomplishments.

[@RandomandNoice]

@@MadadhLasrach that surely put a grin on your face all day! 😂😂

[@mirakeller1231]

This video unearthed one of my most embarrassing memories, where fifth grade me spelled “cork” as “corck” in the very first round of the school spelling bee. Worst part was the fact that my parents had already called these place where I took my music lessons and told them I wouldn't make my usual 6:00pm class that day, since I knew all the hard words... the spelling bee started at 4:00pm, and I was eliminated just 5 minutes later (thankfully they didn't make me go). I ended up crying about it for the rest of the day, and even over a decade later my family still brings it up.

[@miau6451]

i practiced for about a month straight after winning my class spelling bee only to spell "recommend" as "reccomend" and I still get flashbacks

[@sodakuwun0707]

well hey, at least you didnt forget the r:)

[@bauhausliker0]

@@miau6451 i misspell “recommend” as “reccommend” all the time

[@ShinyGoldBacon]

@@miau6451 words with double letters like that ALWAYS trip me up to this day. Is it accross or across? Succeed or suceed? Recommend, reccomend, or reccommend? If it weren't for auto correct and google to double check word spelling quickly, I'd be in trouble.

[@miau6451]

@@ShinyGoldBacon SO REAL OMG

[@0BlahblahWoofWoof0]

Being from the UK, I've never done a spelling bee but I am haunted by the spelling test I did when I was little where I spelt during, guring. Especially when I realised after getting it back that all the words were in alphabetical order

[@cryingchild4209]

don't worry when I was in year eight I spelt mum and bin wrong

[@MahouKat]

Also from the UK - My most embarrassing English moment was during the weekly 'big write'. We were asked to write a story. I wrote a story, where a robber broke into the house, and my dad subdued him with a pair of handcuffs "my mum kept in the wardrobe." 9 year old me had seen them, and assumed they were for if we ever got robbed. 💀

[@julie-the-julie]

such a british mistake

[@lilrockstar8170]

@@MahouKat OH NO XD

[@emmahealy4863]

Look cover spell write check

[@averagecupofcoffee]

I won my school’s spelling bee (in my grade at least) for four years in a row before I quit. One of my fond memories is when I moved on to the County Bee in first grade and misspelled “crying.” I had written it down on paper right, then changed my mind and said “criing.” Another time, I forgot the word “court” existed, and spelled it “cort.” I genuinely couldn’t remember what the word meant.

[@soulvee2108]

Story I will continually tell to all of my friends: In the fourth grade we had a spelling bee, in which kids from my class were brought up against the wall to spell words, whoever was the last remaining kid to get all the words right was the class representative. Then there’d be a great big spelling bee in the school auditorium, in which every class representative would compete to see who would go out of state. Come the auditorium speling bee day, our class representative (I’ll call him kenny, not his real name) made it to like the final round, up against the last person named Kel (don’t know his name). Kenny gets this really hard word (cuz, final round essentially), very long, more than 10 letters probably, and he misspells it. You know what fucking words Kel got??! Fucking. Nacho. N A C H O, NACHO HE GOT NACHO AND WON THE DAMN THING, LIKE A B I T C H

[@rachelf5466]

That's what I hate about spelling bees. I didn't get to participate in my school's seventh grade spelling bee because I got a longer word that I couldn't sound out during the class spelling bee. There was no prep for that class spelling bee, either, they just sprung it on you one day and you had to wing it. The other girl in my class competing for the school spelling bee got "compendium" as the winning word. Which is pronounced exactly as it sounds. Frick that. I felt better when she only made it to the third round of the school spelling bee. And then I showed them when I won my eighth grade school spelling bee, was runner-up at our district spelling bee, and got top eight in the regional spelling bee before I got out on purpose because I didn't want to go to state (the state spelling bee was televised, and I didn't feel like embarrassing myself on TV). Frick seventh grade.

[@nudiustertian3686]

@@rachelf5466 I don’t even what Compendium means ( I’m not a native English speaker )

[@ammitthedevourer7316]

@@nudiustertian3686 a compendium is a collection of information about a certain topic. Encyclopedias, cookbooks, and textbooks are a few examples. It’s one of those big words that the average person doesn’t use very much, like discombobulated or flabbergasted (both of which mean “surprised”). At least, I don’t hear it much in conversation. 🤷‍♀️

[@baguettesxo]

@@ammitthedevourer7316 You learn something new everyday. Cool.

[@nudiustertian3686]

@@ammitthedevourer7316 Oh okay thank you ! I didn’t know , at least I’m expanding my English vocabulary!

[@Moekaneko]

"christmas is a very *spatial* time of year" I would've cried

[@Edward-cb5fc]

Took me a few minutes to understand that

[@Kelso_Belso]

i keep hearing with forrest gumps voice lmao

[@Moekaneko]

@@Kelso_Belso now you've said that I can't unheard it 😭

[@Anonymous-73]

I would have spelled out f-u-c-k y-o-u and walked off

[@Paulafan5]

It is very spatial for the Doctor in his Christmas Specials (Doctor Who).

[@2breakfast]

We did a lot of spelling bees where I’m at, here’s some of my favorite horror stories: - spelled silent s-i-l-n-t and cried in front of everybody - got eliminated and accidentally sat on the kid in front of me - motioned to my mom that i wanted to leave in front of the entire district. repeatedly. - won the district spelling bee, was in a final spell-off to determine who got to go to regionals. i know how to spell every word they’re throwing out, i’ve got this. i walk up to the mic, they ask me to spell “inaugurate”. my dumb ass spells it inaugura-TION in front of everybody. i get dinged and eliminated, i facepalm on stage, rest my head on the microphone, and dejectedly walk back to my seat - freaked out so bad over the possibility of me losing the eighth grade spelling bee that my parents agreed to send me to therapy

[@tigercarson3013]

What do you mean "accidentally sat on the kid in front of me" how do you manage that

[@MimoriAzume]

THERAPY???? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@castleofshadows]

BRUH THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT spelling bee trauma 😂😂😂

[@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy]

How do you manage to accidently sit

[@tinyz7575]

I like to imagine all those happening simultaneously.

[@Embers-nd4vm]

I won my 3rd grade class spelling bee by spelling "idiosyncrasy" But then I lost the 3rd grade finals where I spelled birthday "birstday" lol In my 4th grade, I won by spelling "denouement" I learned the meaning of idiosyncrasy and denouement both from a series of unfortunate events.

[@taraj3884]

What do they mean?

[@limegreenelevator]

​@@taraj3884Idiosyncrasy: peculiar quirk Dénouement: revelations at the end of a story

[@Panzermanzer]

Holy crap denouement NATMOS:R referenc

[@taraj3884]

@@limegreenelevator thanks

[@shadow_moon12546]

Not me, but in a spelling bee, the first kid got the word “building”. She spelt it, “b u i l d i n g”. The judge said, “wrong”. The entire audience went, “hUh?” The judge then proceeded to say, “it’s spelt, ‘b i l b y’”. EVERYBODY had heard “building”. The girl got another chance.

[@aidanaylward9237]

What the fuck is a bilby?!

[@historijan]

@@aidanaylward9237 It's a small desert-dwelling marsupial that is native to Australia apparently. They look pretty cute though the lighting of the pictures don't do it justice.

[@lilacoasis3220]

I won a spelling bee once and then AFTER I won, they told me I was disqualified because I cried on stage due to an anxiety attack before my first word and they counted that as, like, delaying or something. The girl who won instead was nice though 🤷‍♀️ EDIT: I never get replies on stuff this is odd haha. Just to clarify everyone was super nice and stuff and I was fine with it. It was apparently in the rules that they should've given me a different word after I calmed down so that I wouldn't have an advantage, and they didn't, and if I remember they offered to like re-do stuff. But I didn't really want to go to the next level of the competition anyway so I didn't care. The runner up was super sweet and we actually became friends haha.

[@shitfuckaballspiss]

They can ' t Just Disqualify You For having A Panic Attack Like it ' s Not Your fault 💀

[@QUBIQUBED]

thats dumb

[@taterds7858]

That's so bullshit lmao, what the hell were they thinking

[@bencenagy5459]

Your teacher is a terrible person.

[@NoriMori1992]

What the fuck.

[@thatkippy]

Once went to a showing of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" where they seeded the spellers with random audience members. They gave one lady "Mexican," clearly thinking (and hoping) she'd last another round like they needed for the plot. She improvised and asked for a definition, use in a sentence, everything to ham it up. Audience ate it up. She immediately misspelled it. Her look of genuine shock was even funnier than anything she did on purpose.

[@Hulk_Lover]

That happened in my school production too! We were all confused about what to do. I think they missed the C.

[@StormGD256]

I lost a spelling bee to the word “Veloute”. Veloute. A French word. In an ENGLISH SPELLING BEE. VELOUTE. I will never forget my English department for that

[@WeirdWimp]

Do you mean forgive?

[@StormGD256]

@@WeirdWimp both

[@Z_User-d5e]

.... Technically you can use the word "Veloute" in English so they are not wrong.

[@Tyxaar]

When I was in year 1, I was mad, offended that in reading groups everyone, IE, me, started in the lowest group. I taught myself to read before I even went to school so I looked at the assigned words and went “do they REALLY think I’m too stupid to spell ‘the?’” So I misspelt stuff on spelling tests on purpose just to spite the very confused teacher. Eventually my mum was brought in and y’know… asked me why everything was wrong on the tests despite me reading fantasy novels at home. She then explained it to me and the teacher, and I immediately skyrocketed to the top of reading groups after understanding that tests aren’t a passive aggressive way teachers call you stupid.

[@disneygirl3630]

I love this😂😂

[@nameless......................]

SKULL EMOJIIIIIIIIII

[@MelissaThompson432]

You sound like my brother. My mother: your teacher says you're not turning in your homework. I know you do it. Why aren't you turning it in? My brother: that teacher doesn't _deserve_ my homework....

[@tobeseve4020]

I'm dyslexic but didn't know it until my early 20's. I purposely got out on the first round every spelling bee because I was too embarrassed to try and be wrong in front of everyone. Worked like a charm.

[@Liggliluff]

So you didn't want to be wrong in front of everyone, by intentionally being wrong in front of everyone??

[@tobeseve4020]

@@Liggliluff I made it obvious I wasn't trying bu just going "abcqrx35" and sitting down.

[@TeenGhostMachine]

You were forced to participate??

[@tobeseve4020]

@@TeenGhostMachine Yes? Was that uncommon?

[@Brotato333]

@@TeenGhostMachine most schools do that

[@something1600]

05:25 if the judge cannot pronounce the word then they should not be judging a Spelling-B.

[@mo_sea]

The one time I entered a spelling bee, the judge was an old Indian lady with a very heavy accent. The word was cavalcade, which sounded, the way she pronounced it, like "cattlecade" (which I proceeded to spell out and then lose.)

[@oregonrailfan7046]

Dude it’s West Virginia the dude was probably a redneck with a thick accent

[@See_eyeSSSSS]

@@mo_sea they should get a understandable judge

[@ErinaBee.sMoney]

it's spelled BEE

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@ErinaBee.sMoneyno any version of B, Be, Bee is considered correct

[@artemiiix_]

0:20 this is true for me because i remember spelling “meddle” as “medal” during a pretty important spelling bee and that was it for me 😭

[@Slaystoopy]

In 3rd grade i was given the word “grimy” I spelt it G-R-I-M-E-Y I cried after losing.

[@rachele3334]

I will never forget losing the spelling bee in 4th grade even though I spelled “recipe” correctly. I don’t know what they thought I said, but the girl behind me spelled it exactly how I did and ended up winning the whole thing. She won free tickets to a roller skating rink and didn’t go because she had other plans. I was poor and would have done just about anything to go to the roller skating rink. It was like 30 years ago and I’m still salty. 😭

[@rachele3334]

@@DadgeCity thanks, sleep-deprived mommy brain 😵‍💫

[@adelebarahma9953]

why didn't you speak up 😂😂

[@imsotiredofthiscrap2341]

@@adelebarahma9953 they wouldn’t have believed them. they would’ve just thought they were lying to get the free tickets. which sucks :/

[@xei2694]

@@imsotiredofthiscrap2341 That's why they should take a recording of the answers to make sure no mistakes are made in judgement. Also, why are you using the pronoun "they" instead of "she"? Fucking liberals.

[@xei2694]

Why was my comment removed? Was it reported as a troll post? All I did was criticise "I'm so tired of this crap"'s word choice. I guess that's just what KZbin is. Just silence criticism.

[@talcatt]

I won my 5th grade spelling bee with the word "mayonnaise" because I knew it had two "n"s. All the adults I told the story to spelt mayonnaise wrong, and I was overjoyed at the thought that I could spell "mayonnaise" better than a 40-year-old

[@CGammer101]

Thanks, I will remember this

[@GuyWithFacts]

Mayonnaise... mayonaise. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE-

[@0.ST0RM1.0]

I LOST TO THE WORD MAYONNAISE

[@Aliix458]

Mayonnaise… NO WONDER MY BRAIN ALWAYS THOUGHT THE WORD WAS INCORRECT!

[@imrustyokay]

Mayonnaise WHAT THE FUCK FUCKING DYSLEXIA

[@kitcat2449]

I just realized that people who speak english as their first language understand/see english language differently. In finnish everything is written as it's said, so I also use it when practicing/reading english words. Everything sounds the same so I never understood why spelling contests even existed, it'd be too easy.

[@WarTie]

here are some examples: pineapple THE 3 BLOODY THEIR’S

[@JasminMiettunen]

The fact so many native english speakers in this video mixed up J and G, and it’s perfectly understandable 💀 If someone did that in Finnish they'd be laughed out of the country, that’s like mixing up K and S or something, but English? “No, we pronounce them the same sometimes, but not always :)”

[@krystofkarda4170]

@@JasminMiettunen samé with czech

[@insertunoroginalnamehere6189]

Same with Serbian

[@krystofkarda4170]

@@insertunoroginalnamehere6189 just all slavic languages practicali

[@thomastankfan6597]

This ENTIRE Video Had Me Exploding With Laughing-Fits For 10 HOURS! Thanks For Making My Day Better.

[@FLU0RITE]

I'll never forget when I participated in a General Knowledge competition (each school had two teams). The first section was a spelling bee, but they had a non-english speaker read the words, because of this, many pronunciations were wrong, but this especially came into play when my school's first team got given the word "symmetry", but the person announcing the words pronounced it as "cemetery." You can imagine the confusion when it was incorrect...

[@user-ij9ux1xd9v]

Yeah, How do you even become the speaker even though your english is below average?

[@april5356]

That's like asking a tone deaf person to give an example of a song.

[@niatheelf]

We were made to enter a school spelling bee, they'd put the top spellers in the classes against eachother in a school assembly later in the month. So our class did a mini spelling bee to see who to send up, and I was doing really well, but as the number of people standing at the front of the class started dwindling, I got really anxious. I didn't want to compete in the final spelling bee infront of the school if I felt that anxious just in front of my class, so when it was my turn to spell "tomato" I decided to chicken out and add an 'e' on the end so I could be disqualified and sit down. What I didn't think about was how the class would laugh at me spelling 'tomato' wrong, which made me feel even more anxious! At least I didn't have a chance to win and do it all again in front of the whole school :')

[@suziechan5583]

All I see is a missed opportunity for overcoming your anxiety

[@niatheelf]

Yeah in hindsight I probably should've stuck with it, however I was a kid and wanted to take - what I thought - was the easy way out :')

[@deactivatedHonda]

Just a question, is H pronounced as aytch or haytch?

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

@@deactivatedHonda I live in one of the few places where it's "haytch", and I'm glad I do. I hate dropping H's, so I'm not going to do it in the very name of the letter itself. Imagine pronouncing any other letter without it's own sound.

[@ShinyGoldBacon]

I empathize with this, because in elementary school they were trying to find kids that could sing in the school choir. I thought if I sang even decently, I would be forced to do it. That idea made me so nervous that I purposely sang as terribly as I could so I would fail the audition and go back to class.

[@norahsimon4447]

I’m honestly pretty proud of my 3rd grade self for making it as far as I did in my spelling bee. I got out on the word “truculently”.

[@aidanaylward9237]

Me, a soon to be senior in high school: *frantically looks up word*

[@DaWorldGuardian001]

I thought the word was pronounced "trusulently" before seeing it was "trukulently". Altho tbf, I never really understood that one catchphrase to do with the pronuncation of in certain positions as a kid. Only later when I went into researching phonetics in my freetime did I understand. I didn't have any spelling bees afaik but I felt pretty good at my spelling as a kid.

[@TheRealCoffinDancer]

the fuck is a truculently?????

[@aidanaylward9237]

@@TheRealCoffinDancer According to Merriam-Webster, it means "ready and willing to fight or quarrel"

[@TheRealCoffinDancer]

@@aidanaylward9237 hm

[@sonyatheforestgaurdian3152]

In kindergarten my Christian private school had a spelling bee. My word was Jesus. I spelt it B-A-J-E-B-U-S. I was so afraid I'd be excommunicated after that that

[@seijinstars]

BAJEBUS LMAOOO

[@wolfzi2805]

Honestly, I wonder how Matt’s neighbors react when he starts making his videos/voice over, especially when he pronounces the “ADFHDGSHSGS” stuff.

[@ConvenientlyShapedUsername]

Hopefully he has a soundproof room

[@h1rad_gam1ng26]

and the times hes screaming SKULL EMOOJIIIII

[@alexhobbs2209]

AH SCEERORS

[@jaxonbeanie]

Never got spelling bees over in the UK but I remember in primary school I was always good at spelling since I was 'a gifted kid' and one week we had a bunch of increasingly harder spelling tests at the end of which I ended up getting the top score on each one, and a bunch of the other kids were moaning about how a foreign kid did better than them. Not only do I realise now that that's kind of discriminatory with how weirdly angry some of them were about it, I still stand by my confusion that at least half the class didn't even get half marks on the first test, which were all 3 letter words like CAT and DOG and LEG. Maybe the reason I got better marks was because I didn't use the entirety of another kid's whiteout pen to draw on my arm and then try to tell on them for sharpening pencils, ELLIS.

[@writingisfun9842]

Cat, dog, leg? I question little children these days. And all children my age, for they don't like or haven't even read The Hunger Games. They don't like reading! Your confusion was rightfully there!

[@somerandomhandle]

moaning? SKULL EMOJI but seriously, anyone with a dirty mind, get outta here

[@brightblackhole2442]

@@somerandomhandle but if you thought of the word being used in that context... what does that make you

[@somerandomhandle]

@@brightblackhole2442 i've already saw a dirty-minded reply section on a comment that used the word "moaning" not in THAT context so i kinda warned people while being "dirty-minded"

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

Ellis is out there in the world right now and has no idea we're making fun of them.

[@fursona_au_chocolat]

in fourth grade i got disqualified for spelling "cannot" because they ACTUALLY wanted me to spell "can not". to this day i still get pissed if i think about it

[@Primaphy]

Like including a space, that’s out of this world (I just realized I accidentally did a pun 💀)

[@dragroch5536]

Wow, that's actually unfair on you, that should have been legally challenged.

[@sammy_slammy]

It's the same thing as the sleigh/slay thing. Homophones should either be excluded or have any alternative spelling allowed. Cannot and can not are pronounced exactly the same, as are sleigh and slay, reed and read, red and read, etc. Hell, can not shouldn't even count, cuz, isn't the point to spell ONE word? Can not is fucking TWO.

[@Junebug_Hearts_U]

I did something sorta similar. They asked me to spell “Don’t” And I said “D-O-N-T” And they almost disqualified me for not including an apostrophe.

[@MBiz.]

Thats.. two words. You only spell one word, they shouldn't do that.

[@metalhand333]

“Imagne” and “Begining” and no one could forget: ‘Snuflower”

[@ikec-pw5sb]

My heart goes out to lil bro that spelt it correctly and "corrected" himself out of winning the spelling bee

[@anonymouscheesepie3768]

@ESDigital both are correct, i think.

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

@@anonymouscheesepie3768 Spelt is a word but it's not the past tense of spell.

[@anonymouscheesepie3768]

@@Owen_loves_Butters spelt /spelt/ verb BRITISH past and past participle of spell

[@anonymouscheesepie3768]

what i got looking it up anyhow

[@anonymouscheesepie3768]

@ESDigital if pronounced "spelt" with a 't' at the end, use "spelt". if pronounced "spelled" with a 'd' at the end, use "spelled".

[@JayTheOtt]

We had a highschool spelling bee, in order to get everyone warmed up and familiar with the structure they gave a practice round with very easy words. One kid got the word "Deer" and went "Deer. D-E-R. Deer." It was and accident and I am sure he was nervous. Everyone had a laugh and the judges were kind enough to let him stay in to which after that word he did very well. Made it to the final 3 even.

[@channelwithnotopic]

good ending

[@zack1stplayer]

I still have vivid memory of a classroom spelling bee were I was like "oh I'm too lazy to bother with this, I'll just flunk out on purpose, sit back down, and just chill while everyone else does their thing." But then I thought, "the teacher will probably get mad at me for obviously flunking by spelling a word like 'Apple' with a 'Z' at the beginning. I need to make it not so obvious that I want to fail this." So I started to spell the words correctly, while in the back of my head figuring out a letter I could replace while making it reasonable that I would mistake the two. By the time I had a letter I could replace reasonably I'd already spelled the word in full correctly. This went on for a while until it was me and two other kids, I had failed to fail myself for so long that I was now in third place for my whole class. At this point I thought to myself, "huh, maybe I should try. I'm already third I could probably beat them both, seems easy enough." So I decided to actually try as apposed to intentionally attempting to fail myself. It gets back to my turn and I've finally decided to try. The first word that I actually gave my full attention to: "30, spell 30." "T-h-i-r- ... d." Immediately failed as soon as I bothered to care. Moral of the story: don't try anything ever, you'll just fail if you do.

[@oceanneleonard8286]

Matt you are killing me 😂 I’m eating a won-ton soup and i split it everywhere because of how hard i was laughing please help me 😂😂😂😂

[@RedoStoneCraft]

I actually did do a spelling bee in the UK in year 7 (equivalent of 6th grade), but it was in German (as it was part of my languages lessons). As this most people in the class's first year of doing German, pretty much everybody found it extremely difficult.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Once you know bott language it's actually easier in German, since most of the time it's pronounced like it's written.

[@redRuxx]

ₘₐₜₜ ᵣₒₛₑ ₖₙₒ𝓌ₛ ᵢₜ’ₛ ᵧₑₐᵣ ₇ ₕₑ’ₛ Bᵣᵢₜᵢₛₕ

[@MahouKat]

@@redRuxx But a lot of his audience is American? They're just making their comment make sense for anyone who reads it.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@@redRuxx why r u whispering my guy

[@rez_von_rawrr]

I’d start sobbing if I had to spell words in a different language-

[@nonamelegend_vapor]

As a frequent spelling bee participant in school, I absolutely loved this hahaha. The “spatial” one reminds me of a time I watched a kid lose on “salmon” lol. I couldn’t help but feel like it was some bullshit even though “sammon” is the correct pronunciation lol Also maybe that one kid’s “tounge” was too short and they later went to HealthTap for answers

[@Brotato333]

I lost on "primer" because they pronounced it PRIMMER. WHO SAYS IT LIKE THAT

[@awildgalvantulaappeared81]

Why the frick is tongue spelled like that

[@bigawesomewatermelon9511]

@@awildgalvantulaappeared81 Because "ge" is a soft g so it needs the "u" to keep it hard.

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

I wonder if spelling bees are really a thing in other languages, because English has so many words that just aren't spelled the way they sound and that doesn't seem to be quite as common in other languages (not that I know the 7000+ languages spoken, so who knows)

[@waddle_plop]

@@bigawesomewatermelon9511 Valid point, but it could've just been spelled "tung."

[@BuiHieuDong]

This really feels like what it would be like if auto-correct existed in real life.

[@KawaiiPandass123]

YOU. HOW ARE YOU EVERYWHERE?

[@mafuyume]

DONG TOUCH GRASS

[@finnintheowlery]

i love how quickly you go through them makes me laugh so hard

[@itslexactually]

Anytime an adult IN the educational system tries to compliment a kid with “I don’t know how to do that” they’re actually saying two things: 1) the educational system is largely a failure 2) don’t let anyone give you shit for slacking ever again

[@nameless......................]

CORRECT

[@cloudymew]

My year 2 teacher decided to do a spelling bee type thing, it was like a game where we all stood up and in register order she'd call out words and whoever it was had to spell the word. It was my turn and I was given the word "owl". I panicked and loudly yelled "OW!". Teacher thought I hurt myself and I got to go home early. I cried to my mum that whole car ride home. Idk what that experience gave me but I went on to win the best speller award in year 6.

[@SuperStarStudiosPlush]

“Ya like gazz?” Has me laughing SO hard! 🤣

[@mysticwolf1358]

I don’t remember the exact word but i remember my 8th grade english teacher losing his mind when _no one_ could spell a decently simple word. we went through the whole class twice and nobody could spell it correctly. it got to the point where he would just cut us off and exasperatingly say “next” after we got through a few letters incorrectly. it was truly hilarious seeing his reactions

[@thespinodino]

When I was little, I was in one of these and got the word “again.” I spelled it “agen.” I could spell Ichthyovenator without batting an eye but THAT was what got me.

[@Ovotun]

bruh

[@Sparsh011]

hurb

[@DarkShard5728]

what does that even mean

[@crunchysnails]

@@DarkShard5728its a species of dinosaur

[@DarkShard5728]

@@crunchysnails thank you

[@adinom687]

In 6th grade I got second place because I spelled generosity as “generousity” since I assumed it was just “generous” but adding “Ity”. Funnily enough, we were given a study guide like a week before and I studied it for like one minute before getting bored. And then in 8th grade, my music teacher had a spelling bee like once a month or so and I had won the first one, so on the second one when there was me and one other person left, she gave me the composer “Tchaikovsky”. I lost, opened by book and when she did the same thing to me the next month, I won.

[@theofficialwoohoogamers]

Tchai- I was about to ask if it was even a word and got the choice from my browser if I wanted to auto-fill Tchai to Tchaikovsky.

[@SG2048-meta]

Tchaikovsky

[@uranian-Umbra]

What the fuck THCAIKOVSKY??

[@calibricalypso]

​@@theofficialwoohoogamersYour comment is a couple months old, so you may already know this now, but Tchaikovsky was a composer (iirc he's the guy who made The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy or whatever the name of that song is)

[@theofficialwoohoogamers]

oh!@@calibricalypso

[@jichaelmackson2185]

I will never forget this one. I remember participating in my school’s spelling bee in 4th grade. I was one of 4 people left and when I went up, the word they gave me was Watermelon. I go, w-a-t-e-r-E-m-e-l-o-n. The teachers told me I had gotten it wrong. I asked why as I was confident I had correctly spelled it. They told me about that damned extra E I put and I just faceplamed my way off stage. I told my mom and sister and they laughed and made up a joke. Whenever we would buy watermelon at the store, they would always call it Water-EH-melon. I was absolutely scarred for a few years, embarrassed that I had misspelled a word as simple as WATERMELON, let alone being in 4TH GRADE!!! But in the end, I found it to be hilarious.

[@t4ylor_hfjONE]

wadereymelOn

[@snowflakesiio5364]

I would die if my family kept on reminding/joking my mistakes

[@CouldntThinkOfaGoodUsername]

I remember we did a spelling game as a class and i would laugh when some other kids made silly mistakes.......and then i lost to the word "Loaf" 💀

[@henriquepacheco7473]

canadian watermelon be like

[@rachelf5466]

There was one kid in one of my elementary school spelling bees who started "raspberry" as "R-A-Z." His face dropped when he realized his mistake, and he didn't even finish spelling the word. I feel bad for him to this day, especially because that's how "raspberry" is pronounced. He was also one of the smartest kids in my grade.

[@Derpgodzillaboi]

this man can pronounce any jumble of letters and i find it entertaining

[@Cerulean_XD]

Ik this channel is meant to be all light hearted and jokey but seriously you have helped me through hard times and big emotions. Your videos just make me laugh or smile every single time and I can’t thank you enough. Best of the night or day to you matt. Keep doing what you do. Thanks so much. Also whenever I read funny texts from my friends I read them with your voice in my head. It’s just so iconic lol 😂

[@Breaking_Void]

Agreed

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

egg

[@Vince_c.3]

egg

[@tatteryt]

egg

[@orealfrajola]

dont care

[@maddieeffler6362]

I remember I was trying out for the elementary school spelling bee. My word was tiger. I don't remember exactly what I said but I'm pretty sure I just spelled out "I'm scared" because I was so nervous. I didn't make the spelling bee, and am honestly relieved to this day. If I couldn't even make it through the tryouts, I probably would've passed out on stage. Realized in high school that I have anxiety lol

[@dylansickinger545]

Matt is the best person to make this video since it’s all about pronouncing misspellings of words, which he does all the time

[@Cribbit2k]

0:07 In middle school I got the most complex words known to man 😭

[@remedyreverie]

In, like, 6th grade I got president or precedent. Don't remember which. I asked for a sentence. Asked for a definition. Spelled one-- It was the other (which was nothing to do with the definition)

[@GoroAkechi_Real]

When I was in 5th grade, a girl in my class actually went to the spelling bee nationals. She ended up spelling “stereotypical” as “stereotipical”. Later in 6th grade a kid misspelled funnel somehow and half the class got taken out by the word “hangar”, thinking the word was “hanger”.

[@mustafah6150]

Stupid y’s hanging around words acting like i’s.

[@psyduckrules]

I did not know that was a homophone pair. I always that the airplane storage thingy was a ‘hanger’.

[@izzywolflover]

Matt does these videos with so much enthusiasm I can’t help but smile

[@Ceejmay]

You always upload these when I’m in class, and now I’m here giggling in a silent room with everybody looking at me like I’m a gargoyle

[@Matt_Rose]

'Gargoyle' spelled 100% correct tho 💪

[@ShadowHawk24Real]

@@Matt_Rose jarjoyle

[@c0zmozys]

@@ShadowHawk24Real gargoil

[@c0zmozys]

gargoil sounds like a pokemon name

[@miau6451]

@@Matt_Rose gagyl

[@Shako_Lamb]

My grandmother has lived in West Virginia most of her life and her pronunciation of "special" like "spatial" was my first realization that she had an accent

[@1snivy10]

Where I live in Canada we don't have spelling bees, and thank fuck for that. These nightmares sound traumatic as fuck for kids with anxiety disorders and/or learning disorders. In my elementary school, we had spelling tests instead, where the teacher would go through a list of words and all the students would write them down on their own pieces of paper to try and spell them correctly. I always got perfect scores because I read lots of books (remember reading books? I wish I still had the enthusiasm for it). My ability to spell is very good, but get me to spell something out loud and there's a good chance I'll fuck it up like the poor chaps in the video. It's like the ability to spell something on paper is in a different part of the brain from the ability to spell something out loud.

[@NoriMori1992]

I live in Canada but I wish we _did_ have spelling bees, spelling was like the one thing I was ever good at 😭

[@peachfang]

i LOVED english and i had horrific anxiety on account of the bullying so spelling tests were so much fun. my biggest flex was in 3rd grade when i spent like a week making a storage system in minecraft so extensive i think i typed the word miscellaneous like 50 times, so when i get the very same word on my spelling test the next day i FREAKED OUT. saw the panicked expressions on half the class like YESSS WEEP

[@quack7050]

2:48 - "Ya like gazz?" I CACKLED

[@CsnlGuy_Da_Goadt]

There you go ⚫️💨💨💨💨💨💨💨

[@ioium299]

Gazz is "see".

[@QingChina1]

I almost choked.

[@Gimmickvr]

🌔🌕🌖🌓🌕🌗🌒🌕🌘🌑

[@cold_blue2370]

Gas

[@SonjaUnapologetic]

This had me crying, literally. I had to turn it off because I was messing up my make up. I remember the elementary school spelling bees.

[@Summer.12Girl]

Our spelling bees were comprised of spelling tests to see who knew the most words. In year 7, the second round of our class's spelling bee was peer marked. I swapped with the guy I liked and he apologised in advance if I couldn't read his writing and I said it wasn't an issue. It wasn't, but he had to clarify one of the letters on my test. I am still mortified to this day

[@thefactoryrejecct]

Flashback to fifth grade when I won my class spelling bee, made it to the next level and won, then at state I completely panicked and couldn’t make it to the stage. The next year I won in my class again then gave it to someone else because I didn’t want to re-live that experience. Man.

[@Untoastedbagel1271]

Matt really puts his soul behind those skull emojis and it’s hilarious af

[@MEMWRY]

this channel gives me so much seritonin that I could probably ascend to the astral realm. the passion that goes into this absurd comedy is what life is all about. been here for a long time bro love your videos

[@Moothias2112]

I like the added touch of spelling “serotonin” as “seritonin” to go with the theme of the video.

[@MEMWRY]

@@Moothias2112 i was high on serotonin because of the video

[@tessalindsey-gautreaux7455]

One time we had a spelling bee like a tournament, and one kid in my class beat the class spelling bee, the grade spelling bee, and got to the school spelling bee, and he got 3rd in the district and got this HUGE trophy. Props to Ronin.

[@Pooks8]

I once lost a 5th grade spelling bee because of the word “weather”. I spelled it as “whether”, and it haunted me that I never bothered to ask for the context of the word, I just charged in like little miss know-it-all 😢😮😊.

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

Homophones are unfair in spelling bees

[@Pooks8]

@@Owen_loves_Butters Agreed 👍

[@Z_User-d5e]

Should ask the sentence first. (Not being rude tho.)

[@PicturePencil]

losing a spelling bee because of a boner is actually the premise for an entire musical. 25th annual putnam county spelling bee by william finn, an evergreen classic

[@sneepsnoop8639]

Poor Chip

[@keelytouhey7467]

that was the joke I think

[@decent_random]

That's not the whole premise, it's the premise of a couple songs

[@XanderHarris1023]

@@decent_random If it’s the basis for more than one song then it’s at least a theme.

[@decent_random]

@@XanderHarris1023 sure, its a reccuring idea. a premise is the 'main idea of the plot'

[@jswayne7546]

The fact that spelling competitions even exist is proof that the English language is chaos. I'm learning Spanish and it's much easier: if you can read it, you can say it.

[@tsukifuwa1982]

I can asure that, at least most of the words, can be spelled easily, yet there’s some that have silent letters so it can be a bit difficult if you don’t know them. (I forgot to add that im speaking about Spanish, to avoid confusion)

[@DarkShard5728]

i dont know spanish and i guarantee you if i did and i tried to verbally say anything it would be fully incoherent

[@SageGilbert191]

we should really just rewrite english

[@HyjinxRypie]

How are spelling bees proof that the English language is chaos? Its just a competition to see who can spell the best. This makes literally no sense.

[@SageGilbert191]

@@HyjinxRypie red read

[@stewartbignose]

I’ve won multiple spelling bees and can confidently spell floccinaucinihilipilification, antidisestablishmentarianism and most notably of course, yacht.

[@JobiWan144]

I did pretty well in the one spelling bee I ever entered, considering my relatively young age at the time. It's funny how we don't remember the words we spelled correctly, only our failures. I was eliminated after eagerly spelling SEEN. It turned out the word was SCENE, which I could have spelled correctly if I had asked for a definition or sentence.

[@marydorsett635]

That's dumb they shouldn't have word like that

[@JobiWan144]

@@marydorsett635 Welcome to the English language... and spelling bees.

[@chkris6889]

I won my spelling bee in third grade. Went to district, it got delayed because of a snow day. Rescheduled for my BIRTHDAY. Usually spelling bees go in alphabetical order by last name. My last name starts with a B, and I went first. Word was "premises". Spelled it "premesis". Got out first word, first person. Proceeded to have a meltdown. The next year I purposely lost so I didn't have to relive the hell again.

[@NanaOfTheMonsters]

I remember my first panic attack. It was in 3rd grade when my teacher was telling us about the upcoming spelling bee and how tough it was. I thought I was gonna have to participate in the scariest event ever, so I started crying.

[@Luxof_]

The "spatial", "bible", and "brick-a-brack" ones just almost made my blood boil. Thanks, Matt.

[@Local_Hitman]

I’ve got a few stories: One time, in 8th grade, we had a spelling bee. This was not a normal spelling bee, only some 5 people made it to the second round in a class of 30. What happened? The spelling bee was in FRENCH. We never had a paper to prepare for it, so we were all doomed to fail. Except for one girl, with the last name “France,” who obviously knew some French. Up until this point, I’ve always gotten second place in the class spelling bees, cause I make some dumb mistake like nararator instead of narrator, or pennent instead of pennant. Well I go up, not expecting to do so well as I’m hearing words I had never heard before, and I get the word Marquise. I spelt it Marquee, got it wrong, as the 10 other people before me that didn’t get an easy ass word. I’m still mad about that spelling bee. Another time, in 6th grade, I’m in the final round with my best friend. We are going back in forth, taking so long that the rest of the class goes to lunch while we are still spelling words, until I get the word pennant, and I misspell it pennent. He wins the class spelling bee. Cool, I’m happy for him. Only problem? He might not be able to compete in the school wide spelling bee, since he’s moving really soon, and he’s gonna be going to another school some 30 minutes away. Well, after we asked about it, seeing if after all I would be the class representative, we found out that the school spelling bee would take place on his last day at school. We devised a plan so that I could skip out on class to attend it with him. Pretty simple plan, just a lie about who gets to compete. We went to our math teacher, and told her that we had gotten 1st and 2nd place, both going to compete. She believed it, and I got to see him at the spelling bee for the school. He handily gets to the final round against some girl, and he misspells a word. She misspells a word. He misspells a word. She misspells a word. Finally, my friend spells a word correctly, she misses one, but then my friend misspells the championship word. This happens again, until finally my friend wins the spelling bee. Pretty cool thing to see on his last day at my school. I still talk to him from time to time as I’ve never had another connection to somebody like that, even though I’m in 10th grade now, and I should be far removed from those times.

[@arifezwan8893]

Sorry sir, I don't read more than 3 lines.

[@SteampunkHorse]

10th grade? Dude I just got into Year 11 and my best friends in the world are still the people I met in primary school (elementary school). You don’t have to be far removed from anyone who made life better for you. ❤

[@jalolastname5446]

@@SteampunkHorse fr

[@arifezwan8893]

@Kat Khaos *bee

[@domino-dude]

your friend went out with an *epic* bang

[@maybelater6282]

I have a Spelling Bee horror story too. Two, actually. Same Spelling Bee too I think. So we had these things called “Pods” that had three-four individual classrooms for each grade. I think it was third grade that there was this poor boy named Logan that had emotional outburst problems and for some reason always smelled like ketchup. Everyone bullied him and called him “Ketchup Boy”. During a Spelling Bee, we had all the different pod’s classes sitting together in the main pod, so think about 50+ kids and adults. Logan finally feels he has a chance to prove himself as anything more than Ketchup Boy, and I kid you not, this boy gets the word “ketchup”. Tons of kids were laughing immediately. The absolute look of defeat in this boy’s eyes is indescribable. His eyes were red and he honestly looked like he was about to cry. Worst part is: he spelled it wrong. As for the second kid, it was a girl (which I absolutely hated so this fills me with petty joy) that got caught having her period before most other kids and got bullied for it. Reason she got found out was because she tried flushing a pad in one of the toilets and it got clogged so bad that the girls couldn’t use the bathrooms for about a week. All the pods were forced to have a collective meeting where some school staff showed off a pod and scolded us not to flush them. She was so embarrassed. When it was her turn in the spelling bee, she gets the word “period”. I can’t remember if she spelled it right, but her and the students’ reactions were about the same as with Logan. I swear, these teachers and PTA staff were listening to all the gossip going around and purposefully targeted these kids. No way that this wasn’t intentional. Most of them were assholes, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

[@thisguyisfine1512]

💀

[@yvy.830]

noooo i get that its kinda a joke but thats surely a crime omfg

[@oorrbbiitt]

thats actually so sad

[@nohintshere]

poor logan, i hope he stopped being ketchup boy

[@spacebutterfly2873]

Jesus, no wonder Americans are mentally ill

[@takeabowtothemoon]

i misspelled “barbecue” as “barbeque” during a spelling bee once. it’s been a decade, and i’m still salty that it wasn’t accepted as an alternate spelling.

[@DadgeCity]

People who spell it with a q should be flogged.

[@DadgeCity]

@Transistor Jump If it was spelled with a q, it'd be pronounced "barbek".

[@brightblackhole2442]

@@DadgeCity my good friend have you heard, seen, or otherwise received information about the word "queue"

[@SRMkay]

I got to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 8th grade. I still remember the words I got wrong in the qualification rounds the prior years. 5th grade was enactment ("inactment"), 6th grade was paella (had never heard of it, guessed "paieia"), 7th grade was eligible ("elegible").