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How to spell since
What it means: Because or for the reason that.
In a sentence: Since it started raining, we played inside.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as sence or scince.
Same family: ever since, since then, since when, because, as. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Since” comes from Middle English and earlier Old English phrases meaning “after that time.” Over centuries, it expanded from a pure time word to also mean “because” in everyday speech.
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