How to spell posture

hear itpos·ture/'pɑsʧər/nounRules and real life

What it means: Characteristic way of bearing one's body.

In a sentence: The cat has a perfect posture sitting on the mat.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as postur or postuer.

Same family: postures, postural, postured, posturing, pose. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Posture” comes from Latin *positura*, meaning “position” or “placement,” related to the verb *ponere* (“to put, place”). It originally referred to physical position but is now also used metaphorically, as in someone’s “political posture.”

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