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How to spell america

What it means: A large country made up of fifty states.

In a sentence: America is a big, wonderful country with many different people. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as ameria or americka.

Same family: American, North America, South America, pan-American, inter-American. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The name "America" comes from the Latin version of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci’s first name, "Americus." Early mapmakers used "America" to label the newly described continents, and the name eventually became attached specifically to the United States.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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