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How to spell global

What it means: Relating to the whole world.

In a sentence: We can learn from global friends around the world! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as globle or globel.

Same family: globally, globalization, globalise, globalism, worldwide. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Global comes from the noun 'globe', which originally meant a spherical object and later came to mean the Earth. The adjective form with '-al' became common in the 19th and 20th centuries as people began talking more about worldwide, or global, issues.

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