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How to spell geography

hear itge·og·ra·phy/dʒi'ɑgrəfi/nounRules and real life

What it means: The study of Earth's physical features.

In a sentence: We learned about mountains and rivers in geography class today.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as georgraphy or georaphy.

Same family: geographic, geographical, geographically, geologist, geology. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Geography comes from the Greek words 'gē' meaning 'earth' and 'graphia' meaning 'writing' or 'description,' so it literally means 'writing about the Earth.' In ancient times, early geographers drew some of the first world maps based on travelers’ stories and observations.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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