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How to spell cultural

What it means: Relating to the ways of living of a group.

In a sentence: We visited a cultural festival and saw many colorful costumes. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as cultiral or cultrual.

Same family: culturally, culturalism, multicultural, cross-cultural, culturalization. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Cultural” comes from the Latin word *cultura*, meaning ‘care’ or ‘cultivation,’ originally used for farming the land. Over time, it shifted to mean the ‘cultivation’ of the mind, arts, and ways of life of a people.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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