How to spell manuscript

hear itman·u·script/'mænjə,skrɪpt/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A handwritten document or draft of a literary work.

In a sentence: The author wrote her story in a special manuscript.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as manuscrip or manuskript.

Same family: script, scripture, transcript, description, inscription. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Manuscript” comes from the Latin words “manus” (hand) and “scriptus” (written), literally meaning “written by hand.” Before printing was invented, every book was a manuscript that had to be copied by scribes one page at a time.

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