Even Greener Pastures

Sofia do they have "Spelling Bees" in Italy?  In the U.S. they are huge contests that start in local schools and end up with regional and national champions.  Spelling lessons take up an enormous amount of time in US grammar schools, time that could be better spent in science or math.  All to support a language that prides itself that educated people don't spell words by the way they sound.  It makes me angry to think of it.

Italian is so much easier to spell, it has to be an advantage for young students.  I was watching a US tv show dubbed in Italian and the characters were watching the national spelling bee finals, which is usually won by an 11 or 12 year old.  It struck me at the time that Italians would probably wonder what the hell a spelling bee was and why would it be a big deal in the US.

As for English I try to stay away from words with three vowels in a row - a sure sign of French derivation, which means nothing but trouble in spelling and pronunciation in English.

or stumbles on very easy ones like “Lasi”
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/21/us/hardest-words-spelling-bee-trnd/index.html

This may be an easy word for you but it's not used in American English. Sure, it's in our dictionaries, but in use in American English? No, not at all. So what seems easy and common to one person in one country is unheard of in another.

Just because it's in a dictionary doesn't mean that it's an easy or common word. They pick out difficult words for these bees when they get to the higher levels of competition. And why wouldn't they? After all, anyone can spell words like: capitalism, superior, socialism, sucks, USA, best. Well you get the idea. Glad I could help.

Sofia do they have "Spelling Bees" in Italy? 

Italian (and Spanish) are a lot easier to write than English or French. I can’t even remeber that at school they would make us dictations, like they do in French schools.
But in 2018 the first “campionato di Spelling “ took place in Italy. 

To make it more trendy they use the English word. No comment about that.



In France, spelling championships have a big success. They are organized by the journalist Bernard Pivot since more than 35 years. These championships are for adults, usually very educated adults. 

Sofia do they have "Spelling Bees" in Italy?  In the U.S. they are huge contests that start in local schools and end up with regional and national champions.  Spelling lessons take up an enormous amount of time in US grammar schools, time that could be better spent in science or math.  All to support a language that prides itself that educated people don't spell words by the way they sound.  It makes me angry to think of it.

Looking at the difficult words in the article, it's no wonder you get angry, Neal. Most of them would only be useful to experts in biology, wouldn't they?
Still, I'm very happy to have learnt about Bondieuserie (even though I did have to look it up). I'll certainly teach it to a friend of mine who collects that kind of Kitsch (can't quite remember, but I think that's a German loan word, isn't it?).