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How to spell project

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What it means: A planned piece of work or activity.

In a sentence: We worked together to paint a big school project.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as projet or projct.

Same family: projected, projecting, projection, projector, project-based. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "project" comes from Latin "proicere," meaning "to throw forward." This idea of "throwing forward" is still in the modern meaning: a project is work you plan and push forward into the future.

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