The National Spelling Bee is across the street, as usual. The twist this year?

There are protestors.

The idiocy is that English's mongrel background is precisely why it's a superior language to write, think and shout in! Let's let Salon break it down, in the context of the Sotomayor vetting process:

But most ridiculous of all is the idea that something is not "natural" in English. In all the world, there is no more mongrel or polyglot tongue than English; no language more gleefully willing to taint its purity. English borrows from every other language with abandon, steals "foreign" vocabulary without remorse, scoffs at any and every linguistic boundary. Such free-and-easy kaleidoscopic adaptability is English's great strength. Hey, gringo! Why are you so gung-ho to get rid of the chandeliers and blitzkriegs?

Well spelled.