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How to spell self

hear itself/sɛlf/nounSounds

What it means: A person's own body, mind, or personality.

In a sentence: I brushed the dust off myself after playing in the sandbox.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as selph or selfe.

Same family: selfish, selfless, self-esteem, self-control, self-awareness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "self" comes from Old English "self" or "seolf," meaning "one's own person." It is related to similar words in Dutch ("zelf") and German ("selbst"), all tracing back to ancient Germanic roots about personal identity.

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