How to spell date

hear itdate/deɪt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A planned social meeting or appointment.

In a sentence: I have a playdate with my friend tomorrow.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as dait or daet.

Same family: dating, dated, double-date, blind-date, dater. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “date” for a romantic meeting developed in American English in the late 1800s, from the idea of putting a meeting on a calendar date. Earlier, “date” simply meant a point in time, from Latin “datum,” meaning “something given” or “a fixed time.”

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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