How to spell liaison

hear itli·ai·son/,lieɪ'zɔŋ/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A channel for communication between groups.

In a sentence: The teacher helps us with our liaison between school and home by sending notes.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as liason or liaision.

Same family: affair, relationship, lover, clandestine, romance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Liaison comes from French, where it literally means a “bond” or “link,” from the verb lier, “to tie.” In English it first referred to a coordinating agent between groups, and later also came to mean a secret or illicit romantic relationship.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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