One of the anomalies of English is the spelling bee. I can't really speak any other language, but I've been told that the idea of such a bee in most languages w

One of the anomalies of English is the spelling bee. I can't really speak any other language, but I've been told that the idea of such a bee in most languages wouldn't make any sense because everything is spelled - if not exactly how it sounds - then with a consistency that makes the spelling simple. Here, all we have (even for English speakers) is brute force memorization. If you don't know how vacuum is spelled, then good luck guessing.