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How to spell preface
What it means: An introductory section before the main text.
In a sentence: Before reading the story, I looked at the preface to see what it was about.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as prefece or prefas.
Same family: introduction, foreword, prologue, appendix, epilogue. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Preface” comes from Latin *praefatio*, meaning “a saying beforehand” (*prae* = before + *fari* = to speak). In older English, “to preface” was also used as a verb meaning to introduce a speech or remark with a short explanation.
Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter
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