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How to spell ceiling
Ceiling is spelled C-E-I-L-I-N-G.
What it means: The upper surface of a room.
In a sentence: The colorful balloons touched the ceiling.
The part people get wrong
Watch for the order of ei.
Same family: price ceiling, wage ceiling, salary cap, upper limit, maximum. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: In the 1500s, “ceiling” first referred to the inside surface of a room’s roof, from the Middle English word for covering. Much later, English speakers borrowed that idea to describe a figurative ‘upper limit’ in finance and law, such as a price ceiling or a wage ceiling.
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