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How to spell over
What it means: Across to the other side above something.
In a sentence: The cat jumped over the tall fence.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as ovre or oveer.
Same family: overly, overdone, overlap, overcome, overall. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Over” comes from Old English “ofer,” meaning “above” or “beyond.” Over time, English speakers also began using it to show that something has ended, as in “The show is over.”
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