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How to spell journal

hear itjour·nal/'dʒɜrnəl/nounRules and real life

What it means: A daily written record of personal experiences.

In a sentence: I write my thoughts in a journal every night.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as journael or jurnal.

Same family: journalist, journalism, journalistic, diary, ledger. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Journal comes from the Old French word "journal," meaning "daily," which is related to the Latin "diurnalis" from "dies," meaning "day." That’s why a journal is something you write in regularly, often every day.

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