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How to spell throat

hear itthroat/θroʊt/nounSounds

What it means: The passage in the neck leading to the lungs.

In a sentence: My throat feels scratchy when I have a cold.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as throte or throate.

Same family: sore throat, throaty, throatache, throat lozenge, throat infection. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Throat” comes from Old English “þrote,” related to words meaning ‘throng’ or ‘press,’ possibly because air and food are tightly squeezed through this narrow passage. It has been used in English for over a thousand years with nearly the same meaning it has today.

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