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How to spell cities
What it means: Large urban areas with many buildings.
In a sentence: There are many tall buildings in big cities.
The part people get wrong
Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as citys or citites.
Same family: city, citizen, urban, metropolis, citywide. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Cities comes from the word city, which traces back to the Old French cité and Latin civitas, meaning 'community' or 'state.' These Latin words are also related to citizen and civilization.
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