How to spell delivery

hear itde·liv·er·y/dɪ'lɪvəri/nounRules and real life

What it means: The act of bringing something to a place.

In a sentence: The delivery truck brought pizza to our house for dinner.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as delievery or deliverly.

Same family: delivers, delivered, delivering, deliveryman, deliverable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Delivery” comes from the verb “deliver,” which goes back to Latin *deliberare* and Old French *delivrer*, meaning to set free or hand over. Over time, the meaning shifted from freeing a person to handing over goods, which is why we now use it for packages and pizza.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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