How to spell condition

hear itcon·di·tion/kən'dɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The physical state or appearance of something.

In a sentence: The condition of the puppy's fur was soft and shiny.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as conditon or condision.

Same family: conditions, conditional, unconditional, conditioning, recondition. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Condition comes from Latin *condicio*, which originally meant ‘agreement’ or ‘term of a contract.’ Over time, scientists borrowed the word to describe the ‘terms’ or ‘settings’ of an experiment that can be changed or controlled.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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