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including notes on colloquialisms and slang to be avoided in conversation
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Frank Horace Vizetelly
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232 pages
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Title Page
Contents
Section 1
1
Section 2
70
Section 3
98
Section 4
112
Section 5
119
Section 6
120
Section 7
125
Section 8
135
Section 13
175
Section 14
179
Section 15
180
Section 16
191
Section 17
214
Section 18
218
Section 19
222
Section 20
224
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Section 9
142
Section 10
152
Section 11
157
Section 12
160
Section 21
230
Section 22
232
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Common terms and phrases
absurd
adjective
adverb
agreeable
apostrophe
avoided
better
cacography
careful speakers
careless
commonly
Compare
condemned
confounded
correct
critics
denote
derived
designate
Discriminate carefully
distinction
distinguished
elegant
elliptical
English
English language
equivalent
erroneously
euphuism
Exercise
expression
favor
Fitzedward Hall
followed
former
formerly
frequently
grammar
heir
homophones
idea
illiterate
imperfect tense
implies
improperly
incorrect
incorrectly
inelegant
intended
interchangeable
intransitive
kind
lady
Latin
latter
literary usage
locutions
meant
merely
misapplied
noun
object
omitted
one's
onym
past participle
person or thing
pleonastic
plural verb
possessive
preceded
preferable
preposition
pronoun
properly
refined diction
Richard Grant White
Samuel Johnson
sanction
sense
sentence
signifies
singular
sion
slang
slang phrase
slang term
solecisms
sometimes misused
speak
speech
spelling
spoken
spoon
Standard Dictionary says
strictly
substitute
synonymous
tense
term sometimes
tion
to-morrow
tween these words
undesirable colloquialism
verb
vulgar phrase
whereas
word means
word should never
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Title
A desk-book of errors in English: including notes on colloquialisms and slang to be avoided in conversation
Standard desk-book series
Author
Frank Horace Vizetelly
Publisher
Funk & Wagnalls company, 1908
Original from
Harvard University
Digitized
May 13, 2008
Length
232 pages
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