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How to spell calf
What it means: A young cow or bull.
In a sentence: The baby cow is called a calf.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as caff or calff.
Same family: calves, calfskin, leg, muscle. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Calf comes from Old English "cealf," which originally referred to the young of a cow; the body-part meaning for the back of the lower leg developed later, probably because that rounded part of the leg looked a bit like a small animal.
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