I - t. That's How You Spell "it."

The Spelling Bee seems to be a hotter fad than leggings and skirts. The "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is currently running at the Wilbur Theatre downtown, Spellbound will be in your mailbox tomorrow if you add it to your netflix queue, and there's even that pesky frosted mini-wheats commercial featuring a spelling comp. Tomorrow night at the Brattle Theatre you can see one live – and if you catch the late show it'll be the adult version. A $10 ticket gets you admission and goes to the Brattle (which is still trying to raise funds to stay open). The evening starts off at 6 pm with a kids spelling bee – 14 and under. The bridge starts at 7:30 and is a screening of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," the one where he makes it to the spelling bee finals, not the one with the wimpy Christmas Tree. The real action starts when the cash bar opens for the 9:30 pm adult spelling bee competition.

To enter the adult bee is only $5 (on top of the ticket) and will get you a copy of the Houghton Mifflin book "100 Words To Make You Sound Smart" and a shot at the grand prize. You'll get a copy of the newest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (the editorial staff works right here in Boston – did you know?), a full set of the 100 Words…books, tickets to the Wilbur (for 25th Annual Putnam...), and a whole bunch more. Steve Kleinedler will moderate the event. After meeting Steve, one of Houghton's senior dictionary editors, outside of The Burren a couple of months ago we're looking forward to the sentences he's going to come up with for the words. Sure the roots of the event are nerdy, but the presentation promises to be a lot of fun. We hope that they don't keep it tame and make participants spell words like "lexicographer" – we'd much prefer to hear how "cunnilingus" might be used in a sentence.

We thought we'd be the only Google News entry for cunnilingus today – apparently Seattlest beat us to the punch.