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How to spell service
Service is spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E. It ends with the word vice, a C for the S sound: ser + vice.
What it means: A means of providing assistance.
In a sentence: The mail carrier provides an important service to deliver our letters.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.
Same family: servicing, serviced, breeding, mate, stud. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Service comes from Old French and Latin words meaning ‘to serve’ or ‘to be a servant.’ Its specialized breeding sense developed in agricultural contexts, where a male animal’s ‘service’ referred to mating with females in a herd or flock.
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