How to spell people

hear itpeo·ple/'pipəl/nounStarter

What it means: Human beings in general.

In a sentence: People like to play in the park.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as peaple or peeple.

Same family: person, peoples, population, public, crowd. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “People” comes from Old French *pople* or *peuple*, from Latin *populus*, meaning ‘nation’ or ‘the people as a whole.’ The related English word “popular” comes from the same Latin root and originally meant ‘belonging to the people.’

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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