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How to spell pound

What it means: A unit of weight equal to sixteen ounces.

In a sentence: The puppy grew to weigh a whole pound. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as powned or pownd.

Same family: pounding, pounded, thump, hammer, slam. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "pound" comes from Old English "pūnian," meaning to crush or bruise by beating. Over time, English speakers also began to use it for heavy, clumsy movement, as if each step were a repeated blow.

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