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How to spell running

What it means: Moving rapidly on foot.

In a sentence: The dog is running in the park. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double n. Often misspelled as runing or runinng.

Same family: run, runner, ran, running-track, race. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Running comes from the verb 'run', which has roots in Old English 'rinnan' or 'irnan', meaning 'to move quickly'. Over time, adding '-ing' turned it into a noun that names the sport or activity itself, as in 'track running'.

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