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How to spell shirt

hear itshirt/ʃɜrt/nounSounds

What it means: A piece of clothing worn on the upper body.

In a sentence: I wore my bright red shirt to the park today.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shert or shrit.

Same family: shirts, T-shirt, shirtless, top, blouse. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "shirt" comes from Old English "scyrte," which originally referred to a short garment, related to the word "skirt." Over time, "shirt" became the usual word for a garment worn on the upper body.

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