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How to spell cooing
What it means: To make soft, gentle sounds like a baby.
In a sentence: The baby was cooing softly in her crib.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double o. Often misspelled as cuing or coing.
Same family: coo, cooed, coos, cooingly, babble. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Cooing comes from the verb “coo,” which originally imitated the soft sound made by doves and pigeons. Over time, English speakers also began using it for the gentle, happy sounds made by babies.
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