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STANDARD DESK-BOOK SERIES
A Desk-Book of
Errors in English
Including Notes on Colloquialisms and Slangto be Avoided in Conversation
By Frank H. Vizetelly, Litt.D., LL.D.
Managing Editor of “Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionaryof the English Language”; Author of “Essentials ofEnglish Speech and Literature,” Etc.
A REVISED EDITION
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK and LONDON
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Copyright, 1906 and 1920, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Printed in the United States of America]
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention
of the Pan-American Republics and the United States,
August 11, 1910
Published January 1, 1920
All Rights Reserved
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 PREFACE
The fact that this little book has passed throughmany editions, and now enters on a new one inrevised form, is ample answer to its writer’s prayerwhen, with the aid of his Publishers, he launchedit on an uncertain voyage over the seas of time—
“Go, little book, God send thee good passage,
And specially let this be thy prayer:
Unto them all that thee will read or hear,
Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,
Thee to correct in any part or all.”
       (Chaucer.)
It is with sincere gratitude to the Publishers thatthe author acknowledges the results achieved to havebeen due wholly to their kindly interest and indefatigableefforts. He ventures to hope that this newedition, and such subsequent editions as time mayrequire, will be found to measure fully up to theexpectations of the discriminating Public on whichit depends for support.
F. H. V.
New York, January, 1920.
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INTRODUCTORY 
In these days when the vernacular of the streetinvades the home; when illiterate communicationscorrupt good grammar; and when the efforts of theteachers in the public schools are rendered ineffectiveby parents careless of their diction, constant attemptsare being made to point out the way to that“Well of English undefiled” so dear to the heartof the purist. But, notwithstanding these efforts tocorrect careless diction, the abuse and misuse ofwords continue. The one besetting sin of theEnglish-speaking people is a tendency to use colloquialinelegancies, slang, and vulgarisms, and againstthese, as against the illiteracies of the street, it isour duty to guard, nowadays more so than at anyother time, since what is learnt in the schoolroom issoon forgotten or displaced by association with illiterateplayfellows, or by occasionally hearing wordsmisused at home.
Of the purely syntactical side of the English language,no less a master of its intricacies and nicetiesthan Thomas Jefferson has said “I                         
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