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How to spell overdue

What it means: Not returned or completed by the expected time.

In a sentence: The library book was overdue, so I returned it today. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as overdo or overdude.

Same family: due, underdue, past-due, deadline, late. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Overdue is formed from the prefix "over-" meaning "beyond" or "too much" and the word "due," which comes from Old French and Latin words meaning "owed" or "rightfully owed." So something overdue is literally owed beyond the time it was supposed to be paid or done.

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