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How to spell line
What it means: A straight arrangement of people or things.
In a sentence: The children stood in a line to receive their ice cream.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as lyne or lien.
Same family: line of reasoning, line of thought, logical line, line of argument, outline. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "line" comes from the Latin word "linea," meaning a string or a mark made by a string; over time, English speakers began using it metaphorically for a connected series of ideas, which led to phrases like "line of reasoning" and "line of thought."
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