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Hard Spell
Hard Spell is a United Kingdom televised spelling bee programme for children between the ages of eleven and fourteen, presented by Eamonn Holmes, with Nina Hossain reading the words. It was first broadcast on BBC One in late 2004. Heats were held in different parts of the country leading to the grand final, at the end of which Gayathri Kumar was crowned Britain's best young speller.
Notable spellers apart from Gayathri included Nisha Abraham-Thomas from Wolverhampton, Mark Jackson from Cambridge, Dominic Harvey from Bath,
in the Green Bay "Press-Gazette" on , speculating on the origin of the spelling and related fundraiser event, reads:
A November 19, 2015, "Press-Gazette" article repeats Rentmeester's claim but also suggests that the dish "could have erupted as a tradition in multiple places at once". The article notes that there are several variations on the name "booyah" around the Upper Midwest that "appear to be attempts to phonetically manage the hard-to-spell word 'bouillon',