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How to spell jaw

What it means: The bony part of the face holding the teeth.

In a sentence: The lion opened its big jaw to roar. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as jaugh or jaww.

Same family: jawed, jawing, jawbone, chat, talk. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "to jaw" comes from the noun "jaw," the bone you use to talk. In informal English, it shifted from meaning the body part to describing the act of talking, especially light, often aimless conversation.

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