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How to spell program

hear itpro·gram/'proʊgræm/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A show or broadcast on television.

In a sentence: I watched my favorite cartoon program on TV.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as programn or progarm.

Also spelled: programme (accepted as correct).

Same family: programs, programmed, programming, programmer, reprogram. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Program comes from Greek ‘programma,’ meaning a written public notice or plan. It first referred to a written schedule, and later expanded to mean organized courses of study and even computer instructions.

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