528: (Spelling) Bee May 19, 2016

Spelling-bees are a competition on knowing words, yet many people don't understand the words in the name itself. A 'bee' is an old way of saying 'community-gathering' usually for a single purpose. The idiom comes from the way that the insect, bees, act socially in a colony to perform tasks for the greater good. The term is rarely used now, but some peoples still use this phrase, such as the Amish who have knitting-bees, for example.