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How to spell fair
What it means: A public event with rides and games.
In a sentence: We went to the fair and rode the Ferris wheel.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as feer or fere.
Sounds like, but is not: fare. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: fair copy, fair draft, rough draft, manuscript, neat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The use of "fair" to describe a clean or nearly error-free manuscript comes from an older sense of "fair" meaning "beautiful" or "pleasant to look at." A "fair copy" was the attractive, final version of a text, ready to be shown to others or sent to the printer.
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