Newline "\n" in shell script.

I'm doing a ksh shell script and I can't figure out for the life of me how to insert a "\n" newline into a shell script's string variable. I wish I could say:

someVar="a string\nmore words"
echo $someVar

However when I do this, I can only get the exact output of:

a string\nmore words

rather than:

a string
more words

Any idea of how to get this newline into the string?

Use the -e flag with the echo command, which I believe means 'evaluate expressions'. So try:

echo -e $someVar
OR
echo -e "$someVar"

someVar="a string\nmore words"
echo "$someVar"

even this will work...