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How to spell lincoln

hear itlin·coln/'lɪŋkən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The sixteenth president of the United States.

In a sentence: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as linkon or lincon.

Same family: Nebraska, capital, university, campus. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The city of Lincoln, Nebraska, was originally called Lancaster but was renamed in 1867 after Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, when it became the state capital.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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