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How to spell sandwich

Sandwich is spelled S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H.

hear itsand·wich/'sændwɪʧ/nounSounds

What it means: Two slices of bread with a filling in between.

In a sentence: I made a yummy sandwich for lunch.

Same family: sandwiched, sandwiching, between, press, squeeze. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “sandwich” comes from the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who supposedly asked for meat between slices of bread so he could keep playing cards; the verb sense later developed to describe anything squeezed between two other things, just like the original food.

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