Emphasis on multi-sensory learning: Individual phonic, sight word and rule cards reinforce learning, as do games and walk-around activities.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

Focus does not seem to be a word in the Mitsubishi rule book.

FORBES: A setting sun?

No word on when they might rule.

CNN: Al Gore's legal road map

To avoid stuffing their work with dead coinages, the editors use a five-and-five rule: to merit entry, a word or meaning has to be backed by five written uses spread over five years.

ECONOMIST: English language

So if the HRC says we're to eradicate the F-word from our language, just as the NAACP says we're to get rid of the N-word, then why do we allow the exceptions to the rule, and end up praising the offenders as friends of our communities?

CNN: Tracy Morgan and the limits of comedy

Organizers also added an additional computer test for the semifinals, imposed time limits on computer-based spelling and vocabulary tests and added a rule that resulted in automatic elimination for any participant who misspelled a word on stage in the second or third rounds.

CNN: New York eighth-grader wins national spelling bee