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How to spell staff
Staff is spelled S-T-A-F-F. The part people get wrong: double F.
What it means: The body of teachers and administrators at a school.
In a sentence: The school staff helps students learn and grow.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double f.
Same family: staves, staffs, staff notation, musical staff, staff line. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "staff" comes from Old English "stæf," meaning a stick or rod. Musicians later borrowed this image to describe the parallel lines of written music, like a row of little sticks on the page.
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