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How to spell down
What it means: Toward or in a lower place or position.
In a sentence: The sun went down behind the hills.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as Downs or Downs'.
Same family: Down syndrome, Down's description, Down's observations, Langdon Down. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The medical eponym "Down" in Down syndrome comes from John Langdon Down, an English physician who described the condition in 1866. Modern style guides usually write the condition as "Down syndrome" (without the apostrophe) to emphasize that it is not owned by or attributed to the doctor personally.
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