The other great ambiguity is hug/jazz hands. 🤗

I’m sorry your mom just died. *jazz hands*

You have to remember that most English speaking countries don’t have a spelling bee either. The US is weird.

I looked up a UK version and all I could find was old competitions about learning to spell in other languages. E.g. https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/events/national-spelling-bee-competition