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How to spell girth
What it means: The distance around the middle of something.
In a sentence: The elephant has a big girth around its belly.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as grith or gerth.
Same family: saddle, bridle, stirrup, tack, harness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Girth” comes from Old Norse *gjǫrð*, meaning a girdle or band. It is related to the English word “gird,” which also means to encircle or fasten around something.
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