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How to spell tell

What it means: To inform or narrate something to someone.

In a sentence: Can you tell me a funny joke? ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as tel or telll.

Same family: telling, told, retell, story, inform. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Tell” comes from Old English “tellan,” which originally meant “to count or reckon,” because telling a story was like counting or listing events in order.

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