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How to spell garbage

What it means: Waste material or things that are thrown away.

In a sentence: The garbage truck comes every Tuesday to pick up the trash. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as garbadge or garbidge.

Same family: trash, rubbish, waste, junk, litter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Garbage comes from an old French word "garbage" or "garbage" meaning scraps or offal from a butchered animal. Over time, its meaning widened to include all kinds of useless or worthless waste—including, in modern slang, bad ideas or low-quality information.

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