How to spell another

hear itan·oth·er/ə'nəðər/determinerSounds

What it means: One more of the same kind.

In a sentence: Can I have another cookie, please?

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as anouther or anoter.

Same family: other, another one, one another, others, the other. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Another” comes from Old English *ān ōther*, literally meaning “one other.” Over time the words blended together in speech and spelling to become the single word we use today.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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