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How to spell other
Other is spelled O-T-H-E-R.
What it means: The second of two things, or the remaining one.
In a sentence: One shoe is blue, but the other is red.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.
Same family: others, otherwise, another, otherness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Other” comes from Old English “ōther,” meaning “second” or “the second of two,” and is related to German “ander” and Dutch “ander,” all carrying the idea of something different or belonging to a different time or group.
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