How to spell brown

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What it means: Having a dark color like wood or chocolate.

In a sentence: The puppy has a soft, brown coat.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as browm or brawn.

Same family: Brown University, Ivy League, campus, undergraduate, graduate-school. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Brown University, founded in 1764, is named after Nicholas Brown Jr., a wealthy merchant and benefactor. It is one of the oldest universities in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

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