How to spell resignation

hear itres·ig·na·tion/,rɛzɪɡ'neɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A written statement that one is leaving a job.

In a sentence: She gave her resignation and said goodbye to her job.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as resigniation or resignition.

Same family: resign, resigned, resignedly, resignee, resignation-letter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Resignation” comes from the Latin verb *resignare*, meaning “to unseal” or “to cancel,” which later developed the sense of giving up a position or claim. Over time, the word also came to describe the emotional state of calmly accepting something difficult or unpleasant.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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