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Updated instructions about this week’s Invitational poetry contest ...

Pat Myers
Jun 04, 2026
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Hello.

A few short hours after we posted Week 179 of The Invitational this morning — a contest for funny poems using words from this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee — we were presented with a list of all the words, pronunciations, and definitions that will make doing the contest much easier.
Please click here to see the updated version of the Inv…

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