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How to spell usage
Usage is spelled U-S-A-G-E.
What it means: accepted or habitual practice
In a sentence: The teacher explained the usage of each word clearly.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.
Same family: used, useful, useless, user, using. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Usage” comes from Old French “us” or “usage,” from Latin “usus,” meaning “use” or “habit.” In English, it not only means how something is used, but is also a traditional term in dictionaries and style guides for how words and grammar are commonly used in real life.
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