How to spell discount

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What it means: An amount or percentage deducted from a price.

In a sentence: The store gave a discount on my favorite toy.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as discout or discound.

Same family: discounted, discounting, markdown, rebate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Discount” comes from Middle French and Medieval Latin roots meaning “to deduct” or “to count off.” It originally referred to subtracting an amount from a debt before payment, and later came to mean any price reduction for a buyer.

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