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How to spell blue

What it means: Of the color of the sky.

In a sentence: The sky is blue on a sunny day. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as blu or bule.

Sounds like, but is not: blew. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: bluish, blueish, blueness, blueberry, bluebird. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "blue" comes from Old French "bleu" or "bleu(e)", which originally described a pale or light-colored shade. It is related to a Proto-Germanic root that also gave English the word "bleak."

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