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How to spell resource

hear itre·source/'risoʊrs/nounRules and real life

What it means: A helpful supply or source of information or aid.

In a sentence: The library is a great resource for finding books.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as recource or resourse.

Same family: resources, resourceful, resourcefulness, under-resourced, resource-management. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Resource comes from French 'ressource', related to the idea of ‘rising up again’ or ‘recovering’. That older meaning still lives on in the modern sense of having inner resources to deal with difficult or unusual problems.

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