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How to spell age

hear itage/eɪdʒ/nounLong vowels

What it means: The length of time a person or thing has lived.

In a sentence: She is the same age as her brother.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as agee or ag.

Same family: aged, aging, ageing, underage, teenage. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Age comes from Old French "aage" and Latin "aetas," meaning a period of life or lifetime. It’s related to words like "eternal" and "medieval" (Middle Ages), which also refer to stretches of time.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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