How to spell pottery

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. Often misspelled as potery or pottry.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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