How to spell bar

hear itba·r/bɑr/nounLong vowels

What it means: A long, rigid piece of material.

In a sentence: The monkey swung from bar to bar in the jungle gym.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as barr or bra.

Same family: Browning, rifle, weapon, automatic, firearm. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: BAR is actually an acronym for Browning Automatic Rifle, named after its designer, John Moses Browning. Over time, the acronym became so common in military language that it is usually written and pronounced simply as the word “bar.”

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