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How to spell limited
What it means: Kept within a certain boundary or amount.
In a sentence: The candy is limited to one piece per child.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as limitted or limted.
Same family: limit, limits, limitedly, limitation, unlimited. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Limited comes from the verb 'limit', which arrived in English from Old French 'limite', based on the Latin word 'limes' meaning 'boundary' or 'border'. In business names like 'Ltd.', it also signals a 'limited company', where owners’ financial responsibility is limited by law.
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