What is a “womyn?” Kansas Spelling Bee will say it’s the same as “woman” (whatever that is)

Politically charged “woke” misspellings will surge again this year in school spelling bees across the country, driven by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary company which seems demonstrably susceptible to political winds – but only from one direction.

But apparently, if not being able to define a woman is good enough for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the word’s errant spelling will be good enough for Kansas school spelling bee competitors, too.

The Bybylon Bee foresyw such rough wyters in the woke spelling yrena…https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1608132921919164417

News broke last week of the spelling word practice list that will be a part of the Kansas Spelling Bee this year and the acceptance of the feminist-flavored misspelling “womyn” now being accepted in addition to the heretofore conventional spelling of “woman.” 

Local judges, according to the E. W. Scripps Company which runs the annual nationwide spelling contest, are instructed to accept the obvious misspelling for the actual spelling. 

And even though newspapers have generally been expected to spell words correctly at the risk of severe admonishment by knowing readers, the Kansas Press Association, which sponsors the spelling bee in the Sunflower State, won’t be taking a stand on the issue.

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‘Even though some may or may not agree in the word selections,” said KPA President Jeff Cott, publisher of The Derby Informer, “KPA’s purpose is to help provide kids the opportunity to compete in the spelling bee. We have no involvement in the selection of words or their meaning.” Cott said the technical decisions about word acceptance are all made by Scripps. He said KPA asked Scripps for an explanation, and received this statement:

‘It is the policy of the Scripps National Spelling Bee to include all spellings of a word as listed in Merriam-Webster Unabridged, the official source of the SNSB (Scripps National Spelling Bee). In this case, for the word “women,” MWU lists the spelling “womyn” as an acceptable variant spelling. The same is true of the word “theater” for which MWU lists the alternate spelling “theatre.” Both spellings are correct. If a parent, guardian, teacher, administrator, or spelling bee official believes a word might present a problem for their students or during their competition, they may choose to omit the word.’

Merriam-Webster did not respond to an email from The Informer seeking an explanation of the motivation behind the misspelling.

However while words like “theatre” harken back to original British/English spellings, not unlike flavour (flavor), harbour (harbor), honour(honor), and humour (humor). Only in politically charged modern times have influences sought to delete masculine references like substituting “man” or “men” for the testosterone-depleted “myn” – an unquestioning bow to anti-male feminism seeking to promulgate misandry – which Werriam-Webster defines as a prejudice against or hatred of men. 

A Kansas State Representative for the 6th District and Paola school district board member, Samantha Poetter-Parshall said local boards should take a stand to stop such abuses of the King’s English. 

“The only way for the students to compete in the county, state, and national spelling bee is to use this list, because it’s the only one they acknowledge to be eligible to move on to the next level,” Poetter-Parshall told The Sentinel news outlet.

“Randy Watson (Kansas Education Commissioner) said that the KPA (Kansas Principal’s Association) hosts the state spelling bee. As a school board member, I can possibly make it so no alternate spelling of words are used. Or at least attempt that,” she said.

“On the state level, since there is no funding directly going to KPA I am not sure what to do to stop this crazy indoctrination of our children.”

Local school spelling bees start the process of winnowing spellers for the state title in January.