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How to spell salary

Salary is spelled S-A-L-A-R-Y.

What it means: Regular payment for work done.

In a sentence: My mom gets her salary every month for her hard work. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: salaries, salaryman, wage, pay, income. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Salary” comes from the Latin word “salarium,” which is thought to have originally referred to money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt, a valuable resource in ancient times. Over centuries, the meaning shifted to the regular payment given for work.

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