How to spell governor

hear itgov·er·nor/'ɡəvərnər/nounRules and real life

What it means: The head of a state government.

In a sentence: The governor visited our school and talked to the students.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as governer or govenor.

Same family: govern, governorate, governance, governing, governed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Governor” comes from the Latin word *gubernare*, meaning “to direct, rule, or steer,” the same root that gave us the English word “gubernatorial.” In engineering, the word was borrowed to describe a device that ‘steers’ or controls a machine’s speed automatically.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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