How to spell person

hear itper·son/'pɜrsən/nounStarter

What it means: A human being.

In a sentence: The person is eating a big ice cream cone.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as persen or perosn.

Same family: persons, people, personal, personality, personally. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Person comes from Latin "persona," which originally meant a theatrical mask or character in a play. Over time, its meaning shifted from a role on stage to any individual human being.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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