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How to spell board
What it means: A long, flat piece of wood.
In a sentence: We need a board to build our treehouse.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as bord or boared.
Sounds like, but is not: bored. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: boarding, boarded, onboard, embark, disembark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb "board" originally came from the idea of stepping onto a ship’s wooden boards (the deck). Over time, it was extended to mean getting on any kind of vehicle, like trains, buses, and planes.
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