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How to spell notebook

hear itnote·book/'noʊt,bʊk/nounSounds

What it means: A book with blank pages for writing or drawing.

In a sentence: I drew a picture of a happy cat in my notebook.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as note book or notebooke.

Same family: laptop, tablet, desktop, computer, netbook. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “notebook” originally referred to a small paper book for taking notes. As portable computers became common in the late 20th century, the name was borrowed to describe small, easy-to-carry personal computers.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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