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How to spell brew

What it means: To make a drink by steeping or boiling ingredients.

In a sentence: The witch put all her favorite ingredients in the pot to brew a magic potion. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as breu or brue.

Same family: brewer, brewery, brewing, homebrew, microbrew. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Brew” comes from Old English “brēowan,” meaning “to brew or make a drink,” and is related to old Germanic words for making beer. The word is over a thousand years old and originally referred mainly to beer made at home.

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