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How to spell cane
What it means: A stick used for support while walking.
In a sentence: Grandpa uses a cane to walk safely.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as kane or cain.
Same family: caned, caning, cane (noun), corporal-punishment, beat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb “to cane” comes from the noun “cane,” originally meaning a reed or walking stick, from Latin *canna* and Greek *kanna* for ‘reed.’ Over time, the word also came to mean striking someone with such a stick, especially as school or prison punishment.
Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?
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