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How to spell chronology

Chronology is spelled C-H-R-O-N-O-L-O-G-Y.

hear itchro·nol·o·gy/krə'nɑlədʒi/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The arrangement of events in the order they happened.

In a sentence: We learned the chronology of the day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime.

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Same family: chronological, chronologically, chronicle, synchronize, anachronism. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Chronology” comes from the Greek words *chronos* meaning “time” and *-logia* meaning “study of.” It originally referred to the science of computing dates and has been used in English since the 1500s to describe arranging events in time order.

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