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How to spell liaison

Liaison is spelled L-I-A-I-S-O-N.

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.

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.

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