How to spell campaign
campaign
Campaign is spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N.
Not campain.
Why is campaign easy to misspell?
The word campaign has a silent G before its final N, and the misspelling campain leaves it out. Reign and foreign keep a silent G in the same place.
That spelling matches the sound exactly, which is why it looked right. English keeps letters long after the sound has moved on, so the conventional spelling is often the one that looks least like it sounds.
French spelling: silent g beside n
What does campaign mean?
noun. A series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective.
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Where does English spelling come from?
The conventions each language layer left in English spelling, with their sources, are on where English spelling comes from.
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