I want to see the queen of the spelling bee.

I bet she's pretty scary.

Welcome to your wrong about.

With me today is Gabe Henry, and we're going to talk about spelling, and I'm going to sound like

pepperan, and I'm much too cool for seventh grade. Gabe, thank you so much for coming back.

Thank you so much for having me, Sarah. You were on to talk about the movement to standardize

American spelling when we last talk to you and about your book.

And I don't know, I, what is your wheelhouse, I guess? What kind of a correspondent are we going

to name you for this show? Would you like to be the spelling correspondent or is that a little

bit too unfun sounding? I would be so honored. You know, I think ever since I lost my spelling B in third grade,

I've been trying to process my trauma in a really healthy and constructive way. And I think

being your spelling correspondent will do the trick. Okay, perfect. And I also will confess at the

start that I got dinged on, I think, a fifth grade, not a spelling test exactly,

but I think we just had to, like, write the names of the states.

And I had been reading the Dear America book about the Oregon Trail, which spelled Missouri, Missouri.

And I got a point off for that.

And I'm so a little sad about it.

And that was in 1999.

You know, I've, um, I spent much of this past year speaking to different audiences about

language and about spelling. And I always like to begin with an icebreaker. So I'll say to the audience,

raise your hand if you remember what word you won on or lost on in

your childhood spelling bee. And no matter the city, no matter what age I'm speaking to, the hands

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