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How to spell microphone
What it means: A device that converts sound into electrical signals.
In a sentence: The singer spoke into the microphone to sing her song.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as microfone or micropone.
Same family: mic, microphones, microphoned, microphonic, microphone stand. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Microphone” comes from Greek roots: “micro-” meaning “small” and “-phone” meaning “sound” or “voice.” It was first used in the late 1800s for devices that could pick up very small sounds and make them louder.
Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?
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