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How to spell subway

hear itsub·way/'səb,weɪ/nounSounds

What it means: An underground train system.

In a sentence: We rode the subway to visit the museum.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as subwey or subwai.

Same family: train, metro, underground, station, platform. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “subway” comes from the prefix “sub-” meaning “under” and “way” meaning “path” or “road,” so it literally means an underground way. Early subways were sometimes called “underground railways” or “tubes,” especially in London.

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