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How to spell turn

hear itturn/tɜrn/verbLong vowels

What it means: To change the position of something.

In a sentence: I will turn the page of my book.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as tern or turen.

Same family: turns, turning, turned, overturn, return. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Turn comes from Old English "tyrnan" or "turnian," which came from Latin "tornare," meaning "to turn on a lathe" or "to round off." Farmers later used the same idea of rotating or flipping to describe turning the soil with a plow.

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