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means Paper, pens, envelopes, and other writing supplies — specifically the kind you buy, not the kind you lick and stick.
from Comes from 'stationer,' a medieval term for a bookseller or merchant who had a fixed shop — a 'station' — unlike peddlers who wandered about selling from carts. Stationers often sold paper and writing goods alongside books, and by the 1700s 'stationery' had hardened into its own word for the wares themselves. Its evil twin 'stationary' (not moving) comes from the same Latin root, statio, meaning a standing place — which is the actual reason English speakers confuse them to this day.
- spelling trick
- stationERy, like lettER, not stationARy (that's not moving)
- root word
- from stationers, medieval sellers who stood at fixed stalls
- psychology hack
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- universal truth
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