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How to spell stop
What it means: To come to a halt and cease moving.
In a sentence: Stop at the red light.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as stopp or sotp.
Same family: stops, stopped, stopping, stopper, nonstop. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Stop” comes from Old English “stoppian,” meaning to plug or block an opening. Over time, its meaning broadened to include ending any action or movement, not just blocking holes.
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