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How to spell pottery

Pottery is spelled P-O-T-T-E-R-Y. The part people get wrong: double T.

hear itpot·ter·y/'pɑtəri/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: Ceramic items made from clay.

In a sentence: We made colorful pots in pottery class today.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: potter, ceramics, ceramic, clay, earthenware. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Pottery” comes from the Middle French word “poterie,” which is related to “potter,” a person who makes pots. The craft itself is one of the oldest human technologies, with pottery pieces found that are more than 10,000 years old.

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