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How to spell academician

What it means: An educator who works at a college or university.

In a sentence: The academician taught us how to explore the stars. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as acadamician or academitian.

Same family: academic, academics, academia, academically. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Academician” ultimately comes from the Greek word “Akadēmia,” the name of Plato’s school of philosophy. Over time, ‘academy’ came to mean any place of higher learning, and an ‘academician’ became someone who works professionally in that scholarly world.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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