How to spell scenery

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What it means: The appearance of a place or landscape.

In a sentence: The scenery in the park is beautiful with all the flowers and trees.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: scene, scenic, scenically, stage, setting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scenery comes from the word 'scene', which goes back to the Greek word 'skēnē', meaning a stage or tent. Over time, 'scenery' came to mean the painted stage background that shows where a play is taking place.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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