How to spell location

hear itlo·ca·tion/loʊ'keɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The place where something is.

In a sentence: We found the secret treasure's location on the map.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as locaton or locashion.

Same family: locate, relocate, relocation, local, locality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Location” comes from the Latin word *locare*, meaning “to place,” which is related to *locus*, meaning “place.” This same root also appears in words like “local” and “locomotive” (originally meaning something that moves from place to place).

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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