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How to spell environmental

Environmental is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L. Hidden iron: en-v-IRON-mental, so the N of iron comes before the M.

What it means: Related to the surroundings or ecological effects.

In a sentence: The environmental club planted trees in the park to help nature. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: environment, environmentally, environmentalist, environmentalism, environ. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Environmental” comes from the noun “environment,” which originally meant the things that ‘environ’ or surround you. The verb “environ” comes from Old French and ultimately from a Latin root meaning ‘to circle around,’ so the word is literally about the world around us.

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