The inaugural Philadelphia Spelling Brawl took place a couple weeks back. 10 Philly Content Creators and 10 people we just found off the street battled it out at Gaul & Co. to see who the city’s best speller was. In the first round, everyone got a 6th grade spelling word to dip their toe into the water before we started spelling Philly-centric words. I wanted to separate the idiots from the lesser-idiots. The beginning started off with a bang, with the King of the Idiots – Frnacis, whose name is spelled wrong on his birth certificate:

 

This is what I said about Frnacis a month before the Bee. I knocked it out of the park.

This is Part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2 will be out Thursday with Philly slang, neighborhoods, and streets and Part 3 will be out Friday. Subscribe to Crossing Broad’s YouTube channel so you won’t miss it! Thanks to Miller Lite for sponsoring the video and for Gaul & Co. giving us a home!