How to spell memory

hear itmem·o·ry/'mɛməri/nounRules and real life

What it means: The ability to remember things.

In a sentence: Grandma loves telling stories from her memory.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as memmory or memeory.

Same family: memorize, memorial, memorable, remember, recollection. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Memory” comes from the Latin word “memoria,” meaning “remembrance” or “faculty of remembering.” It is related to the verb “memorare,” which means “to mention” or “to call to mind,” showing how remembering and speaking about the past have always been connected.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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