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How to spell talk

Talk is spelled T-A-L-K.

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What it means: To say words to communicate with someone.

In a sentence: I like to talk to my friends at school.

Same family: talks, talked, talking, talker, talkative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Talk” comes from Middle English “talken,” related to Old English words meaning ‘to tell.’ Over time, it shifted from the idea of telling or recounting something to our modern sense of speaking or chatting with someone.

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