How to spell supplies

hear it/sə'plaɪ/nounRules and real life

What it means: Items needed for a specific purpose.

In a sentence: We packed our school supplies in the new backpack.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and the order of ie. Often misspelled as suplies or suplys.

Same family: supplied, supplying, supplier, provision, provide. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Supplies comes from the verb supply, which came into English from Old French ‘souplir’ and Latin ‘supplere,’ meaning ‘to fill up’ or ‘to make full.’ Over time, the sense shifted from simply ‘filling up’ to ‘providing or equipping with what is needed.’

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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