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How to spell dry
What it means: Free from moisture or wetness.
In a sentence: The clothes are dry in the sunshine.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as dri or drye.
Same family: dries, dried, drying, dryer, dryness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Dry” comes from Old English “drȳge,” meaning dry or lacking moisture. It is related to old Germanic words with similar meanings, making it a very old and basic word in English.
Patterns it uses: Change y to i?
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