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How to spell like
What it means: To enjoy or take pleasure in something.
In a sentence: I like playing with my puppy.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as lik or liek.
Same family: liked, liking, dislike, likable, unlike. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "like" comes from Old English "līcian," meaning "to please" or "to be pleasing." Over time, it shifted from meaning "to be pleasing" to our modern sense of personally enjoying or preferring something.
Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?
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