How to spell store

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What it means: A place where goods are sold.

In a sentence: We went to the store to buy some apples.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as stoor or stor.

Same family: storage, stored, storing, data-store, memory-store. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Store comes from Old French 'estore' and Latin 'instaurare', meaning to furnish or provide. In modern technology, the idea of a 'store' was extended metaphorically to mean a place inside a device where information is kept, just like goods are kept in a physical store.

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