But this time, at a speller's request.
"Can I have a sentence involving the Prune Man?" William Elder (Speller 171) asked when he heard his word, "sorghum.".
"Actually, the Prune Man likes sorghum on his oatmeal," Dr. Bailly said.
William, a Fayetteville, North Carolina eighth grader learned the word in geography, he said. He spelled it correctly.