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How to spell summary

Summary is spelled S-U-M-M-A-R-Y. Sum it up: two M's, then -ARY, the ending of dictionary.

What it means: A brief statement of the main points.

In a sentence: The teacher gave a summary of the story. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: summarize, summarizing, summarized, summation, outline. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Summary” comes from Latin *summarius*, meaning ‘of or pertaining to the sum or total.’ It originally referred to something done quickly or briefly, like getting the ‘sum total’ of a longer text.

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