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How to spell normally

What it means: Usually or in an ordinary way.

In a sentence: Normally, we eat dinner at six o'clock. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as normaly or normelly.

Same family: normal, abnormal, normality, abnormally. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Normally” comes from the adjective “normal,” which traces back to the Latin word “norma,” meaning a carpenter’s square or rule. Over time, the idea of a measuring rule turned into our modern sense of what is usual, standard, or expected.

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