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How to spell personally

Personally is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-L-Y. The part people get wrong: double L.

What it means: From one's own point of view.

In a sentence: I personally think ice cream is the best dessert! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: personal, personality, impersonal, personnel. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Personally” comes from the noun “person,” which traces back to Latin persona, meaning a mask or character in a play. Over time it shifted from the idea of a theatrical role to mean an individual human being, and “personally” came to describe something done by that individual themselves.

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