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How to spell story

hear itsto·ry/'stoʊri/nounLong vowels

What it means: A narrative or account of events.

In a sentence: Alice read a bedtime story with her mom.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as storie or stary.

Sounds like, but is not: storey. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Also spelled: storey (accepted as correct).

Same family: stories, storyteller, storytelling, history, narrative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Story comes from Middle English 'storīe', from Old French 'estoire', meaning a history or account of events. It is related to the word 'history', and over time it came to mean not just true accounts but also imagined tales.

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