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A spelling contest, 'Bonk and Boob' was praised by teachers for encouraging children to learn to spell properly.

Mr Speed gives him a prize for losing a spelling contest.

The guard squeezed his eyes shut, like a schoolboy strug- gling in a spelling contest.

From the medals on his chest I would say that he had won every spelling contest from first grade on.

He also hosted a spelling contest for children for "Rang".

She won a statewide spelling contest at age 8, had the highest grade point average in her high school class, and was senior class president and valedictorian.

His surname is pronounced mick-uh-LYE-chick, and as he says, "It's a spelling contest every day."

There are many local qualifying spelling contests.

She won the spelling contest.

I didn't win the spelling contest.