"Hi Mr. Bailly -- Dr. Bailly, sorry," Sukesh Kamesh, speller 134, greeted the pronouncer.
Dr. Bailly said it was OK.
"I'm not a medical doctor," he told the Kansas eighth grader in his second Bee.
Sukesh spelled "suffrage" correctly. It's the right or power to participate in electing public officials and adopting or rejecting legislation in a representative form of government.