How to spell comment

hear itcom·ment/'kɑmɛnt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A statement expressing an opinion.

In a sentence: She left a nice comment on her friend's drawing.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m. Often misspelled as coment or commment.

Same family: commented, commenting, commentary, commentator, comments. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Comment comes from Latin 'commentum' and 'commentari', meaning an invention or something thought over, which later came to mean explaining or remarking on a text. In medieval times, scholars wrote comments between the lines of manuscripts, which is where the idea of interlinear explanations comes from.

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