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How to spell demonstration

hear itdem·on·stra·tion/,dɛmən'streɪʃən/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A visual presentation showing how something works.

In a sentence: The teacher gave a fun demonstration on how to make a paper airplane.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as demostration or demonstrasion.

Same family: demonstrate, demonstrative, demonstrably, demonstrator, demonstrated. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Demonstration” comes from Latin *demonstrare*, meaning “to point out, show clearly.” Over time, it kept both senses in English: a clear proof or showing of something, and a public protest where people “show” their opinions together.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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