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How to spell delivery

Delivery is spelled D-E-L-I-V-E-R-Y. There is a liver in de-LIVER-y: it is simply deliver with a Y.

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

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

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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.

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