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How to spell treasury

hear ittreas·ur·y/'trɛʒəri/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A place where money and valuables are stored.

In a sentence: The king's gold is kept safe in a big treasury.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as treasory or tresury.

Same family: Treasury (when used as a proper noun, e.g., the U.S. Treasury), treasure, treasurer, Treasury bond, Treasury bill. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Treasury comes from the Old French word *tresorie*, linked to *tresor* meaning 'treasure.' Over time, the word shifted from meaning a place where treasure is kept to also meaning a government department that manages money and public debt, like the U.S. Treasury.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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