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How to spell birthday
What it means: The date on which a person was born.
In a sentence: I got a big cake for my birthday.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as birhtday or bithday.
Same family: birthday party, birth, born, anniversary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Birthday is a compound word made from “birth” + “day,” literally meaning the day of someone’s birth. English speakers have used the word since at least the 1500s, but birthday cakes and candles became popular much later, influenced by European traditions.
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