Curated Video
Three Questions With The Bee Master: The Man Behind The Words
Jacques Bailly, the Spelling Bee's official announcer, answers questions, including why almost all bees use only English words.
Curated Video
Behind The Scenes Of The Scripps Spelling Bee With LeVar Burton
Christian Bryant talks with LeVar Burton, the host of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee and former host of "Reading Rainbow."
Curated Video
National Spelling Bee Contestants Share Insights On The Competition
More than 200 kids compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A couple of them answered Newsy's questions ahead of the competition.
Bloomberg
Financial Terms Join Twerking, Selfie in Dictionary
Oct. 23 -- Mark Forsyth, author of the introduction to the Collins Dictionary, explains how the credit crisis brought financial terms into mainstream English language as new words are added to the latest edition of the dictionary. He...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : First dictionary editor thought term 'anti-Semite' would have no use
A short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed anti-Semite (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
The Recount
Ta-Ta, Tesla's off to Texas
Tesla is packing up the trunk and moving its headquarters down to Texas. It’s playoff baseball season … and that September jobs report is a swing and a miss. Plus, Google and YouTube say no to misinformation, and Seattle says yes to...
Bridgeman Arts
Charles de Foucauld, Tuareg village, Algeria 1957
Clip 2 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. Re-enactment Charles de Foucauld, man in white robe perusing book, De Foucauld's dictionary. The Ahaggar / Hoggar mountain range Touring Club de France Various shot of the...
Curated Video
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added about 100 new words that largely reflect changing trends in American society
HEADLINE: First Person: Webster's new words
CAPTION: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added about 100 new words that largely reflect changing trends in American society. (July 9)
Curated Video
US security analyst comments on Iraq violence
1. News conference, with Anthony Cordesman, Iraq analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Cordesman, Iraq analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies:
"There are no...
Curated Video
First Arabic-English dictionary among lots at Islamic art auction
The hand-written printer's copy of the first Arab-English dictionary is one of the headline lots at a series of London auctions celebrating Islamic Art Week in the capital.
Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses are selling rare and...
Curated Video
USA: WASHINGTON: SCRABBLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
English/Nat
The best Scrabble players from 36 countries are gathering in Washington D-C this weekend for the Scrabble World Championships.
The competition, held every other year since 1991, awards 25-thousand U-S dollars to the...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Epic quest to document miracle of Hebrew language
The bespectacled man with two pens in his shirt pocket and a black skullcap atop grey hair points to his computer screen and explains an epic project spanning generations
Hearst Metrotone News
A woman uses a hand held electronic dictionary and two boys use a VCR.
A woman uses a hand held electronic dictionary and two boys use a VCR.
AFP News Agency
VOICED : La jerga de las drogas al Diccionario del Espanol en Mexico
VOICED : La jerga de las drogas al Diccionario del Espanol en Mexico
Curated Video
SYND 20-6-74 INTERVIEW WITH SUSPECTED ARAB TERRORIST
Interview with Riad Shurbay the Jordanian student arrested last week on suspicion of planning terrorist acts during the World Cup soccer tournament
1 gv pan university buildings
2 ms Riad Shurbay walking with students
3 mcu Shurbay...
Curated Video
De Nada
1. Clip - 'Bring It On To My Love', De Nada
2. SOT De Nada (English ): "'Bring It On To My Love', basically, is about a couple in love but one of them is giving more love than the other and it's like, if you're serious mate then bring...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Leicester strike for Premier League title with city on a roll
CLEAN : Leicester strike for Premier League title with city on a roll
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Wordplay a new weapon in Hong Kong democracy battle
CLEAN : Wordplay a new weapon in Hong Kong democracy battle
Sky News
Siege of Sarajevo during Bosnian War - Alija Izetbegovic in Presidency building
CLEAN: Interior shots of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic walking through Presidency building and looking at dictionary in his office in June 1992 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Chinese farmer turned eco warrior takes on big business
Wang Enlin an elderly farmer who left school when he was 10 years old and taught himself law armed with a single textbook and dictionary makes for an unlikely eco warrior
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Facebook could provide answer to translating rare language pairs
How do you translate from a foreign language without using a dictionary Tech wizards at Facebook France are developing artificial intelligence to help translate from rare language pairs (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
How The National Spelling Bee Came To Be
The National Spelling Bee has been around since 1925, but since then, words have gotten tougher, prizes are bigger and the spectacle has spread.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word With Multiple Meanings
This lesson focuses on determining the correct meaning of a word with multiple meanings. First it explains why words in English have multiple meanings. Then using the word "bear," it provides steps and examples for how to determine the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Research the Meaning
This video lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by researching the meaning. [5:27] L.9-10.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings