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How to spell calendar

Calendar is spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R. A in CAL, E in EN, and it ends -DAR, as in cheddar: cal-en-dar.

What it means: A chart showing the days, weeks, and months of a year.

In a sentence: I marked my birthday on the calendar. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: calendars, calendar-year, calendar-month, schedule, appointment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Calendar comes from the Latin word “calendarium,” which meant an account book, because interest payments were due on the first day of the month. Over time, the word shifted from meaning a book of debts to a book of days.

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