maintainance

Can The Word Maintenance Be A Verb?

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Can The Word Maintenance Be A Verb? Maintain, the verb related to the noun maintenance, comes from the Latin expression manu tenere meaning literally “hold in the hand,” a fitting picture for this word. As well as the upkeep of machines, maintenance can be used with things that need sustaining. Can the word be be

How Do Spell Maintenance?

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How Do Spell Maintenance? It’s English. Nothing more needs be said (except to get to the minimum character count). The word maintenance comes from Old French, where it was (sometimes) spelled the same way. But the vowel in the second syllable of maintain changed. Are there two ways to spell maintenance? Other users have misspelled