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How to spell proceed

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What it means: To continue or move forward.

In a sentence: Let's proceed to the next page in the storybook.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as proced or procede.

Sounds like, but is not: precede. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: proceeding, procedure, process, precede, succeed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Proceed” comes from Latin *procedere*, from *pro-* meaning “forward” and *cedere* meaning “to go,” so it literally means “to go forward.” It is part of the same Latin family as “precede,” “succeed,” and “process,” which all share the idea of moving or going in some way.

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