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How to spell post

hear itpost/poʊst/verbRules and real life

What it means: To send something by mail.

In a sentence: I put a letter in the mailbox to post it.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as poast or postt.

Same family: position, appointment, role, job, posting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: In this sense, "post" comes from an older meaning of a fixed position or station, from Latin "positus," meaning "placed." Over time, it came to refer to a specific place where someone is assigned to work, and then more generally to a job or official position.

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