How to spell spoon

hear itspoon/spun/nounLong vowels

What it means: A utensil used for eating or serving.

In a sentence: I used a spoon to eat my soup.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as spune or spoonn.

Same family: spoons, teaspoon, tablespoon, spoonful, spooning. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Spoon” comes from Old English “spōn,” which originally meant a chip or splinter of wood, because early spoons were often carved from wooden pieces.

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