The Spelling Prodigy

A long time ago, for a long plane trip, I bought a book full of Jumbles. You know, the word game wherin you unscramble words to come up with a "Surprise Answer" for some cheesy cartoon pun. This book has been recently unpacked and acquisitioned by Ben.

Today in the car on the way to church, Ben threw us a couple of surprises. "Hey, Mommy and Daddy, I made a word! V-A-L-U-E." "Wow, Ben, that really is a word: Value! Good job!" "Thanks!" There was one more after that; some word that seemed pretty amazing, but not totally out of the realm of coincedence for him to have mixed up the letters just right till they made up a word. Then we got to church, and I forgot all about it.

On the way home it began again. But this time it was "Hey, I think I spelled 'guitar'!" "Really, Ben? How did you spell it?" "G-U-I-T-A-R." Hello, Harvard!

"Holy COW Ben! That really IS how you spell guitar! How did you know that??"

"I looked at the answers in the back of the book."