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How to spell accept

hear itac·cept/æk'sɛpt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To agree to receive something.

In a sentence: I was happy to accept the birthday party invitation from my friend.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c. Often misspelled as except or acept.

Sounds like, but is not: except. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: accepts, accepted, accepting, acceptable, acceptance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Accept” comes from Latin *accipere*, meaning “to take to oneself” (*ad-* ‘to’ + *capere* ‘take’). It is closely related to “except,” which originally meant “to take out,” so the two words share a root but have opposite directions in meaning.

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