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How to spell person
Person is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N.
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.
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.
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