Discussion
Find the correctly spelt word:
Answer: D
Correct answer: Privilege
The correct spelling is privilege - no d, and every vowel an e or an i in the order i-i-e. The intrusive d comes from confusion with knowledge, acknowledge and ledge, but this word has no connection with any of them. It derives from the Latin privilegium, from privus, private, and lex, law - a law affecting a single individual. Seeing lege from lex at the end fixes the spelling: privi-lege. The same leg- root gives legal, legislate and legitimate; the same priv- gives private, deprive and privacy. The related forms are privileged and underprivileged, both keeping the same letters.
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