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How to spell please

What it means: Used as a polite word when asking for something.

In a sentence: Can you please pass the pencil to me? ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as pleese or plese.

Same family: pleased, pleasing, pleasure, pleasant, displease. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Please comes from Old French "plaire," from Latin "placere," meaning "to be agreeable" or "to satisfy." The polite word "please" in requests is actually a shortened form of the older phrase "if it please you."

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