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Here's your Shmoop du jour brought to you by hygiene, our advice

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don't ever say hi to Gene much of a brusher, all right which word is [Man says hi to Gene then runs away because of the smell]

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misspelled and here are the potential answers.

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Well even though the en syllable shows up in a lot of our options there's no hard and fast rule for

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how it needs to be spelled might be nice if English had a whole bunch of simple

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consistent rules but instead it's like some weird violent sport where anything [People playing rugby]

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goes you know like rugby, all right well what

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can option a do for us, absence has that en syllable and it's spelled in a [Answer A is highlighted]

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perfectly unremarkable way, en. So A is not our guy what about D, physician

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also has that en syllable although spelled in a slightly different way, an. However

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you don't need to go to med school for years to know that so this is the [Guy writes Physician on a blackboard and gets a med school certificate]

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correct spelling of the word you might want to go anyway though it could make [The guys mom hugging him]

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your mother proud how about C hygiene doesn't have the en

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syllable but it's spelled just fine option C can hit the showers what about B [Option B is highlighted]

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Permenance not only has the en syllable once it has a twice unfortunately both

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are misspelled it's really spelled this way we know we know the original spelling

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had an an and an en too so what makes this one right and the other one [The syllables are highlighted]

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wrong well sadly there's no grand mind-blowing explanation this is the way [Guys head opens and an explosion appears]

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it is so B is our answer, maybe we'll just lie low until genes gone... [Man falls over from Gene's smell]

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