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How to spell girl
What it means: A young female person.
In a sentence: The girl wore a pretty pink dress.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as gril or gurl.
Same family: girls, girlfriend, girlish, girlhood. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "girl" comes from Middle English "girle" or "gurle," which originally could mean a young person of either sex. Over time, its meaning narrowed to refer specifically to a female child or young woman.
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