What's the point of spelling competition?

[AlainK]

...and the Semi-Entente?

Don't be so suspicious, go the whole hog!
(I love this expression , I read somewhere it comes from a time when a coin with a boar on it could be split in two, don't know if it's true...)

Alain

[YTG]

So it's dictation in France then? I presume it's like that in all other French-speaking countries as well? Yeah, I think that's better than spelling out aloud in front of audience.

[Tdol]

go the whole hog!

I don't know if this is true- I'll check. I did read an article by a vegetarian who wanted to go vegan but found it difficult to, err, go the whole hog.

[AlainK]