How to spell long

Long is spelled L-O-N-G.

hear itlong/lɔŋ/adjectiveSounds

What it means: Having a significant length.

In a sentence: The giraffe has a long neck.

Same family: long-term, long-lasting, lasting, memory, remember. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: In English, the word "long" originally described physical length and time, but over centuries it also came to describe mental capacity, like having a "long memory" that stretches far back into the past.

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