Excerpt from Verbal Pitfalls: A Manual of 1500 Words Commonly Misused Arranged Alphabetically, With 3000 References and Quotations, and the Ruling of the Dictionaries B. Goold brown. The Grammar of English Gram mars, with an introduction historical and critical; the whole methodically arranged and amply illustrated: with forms of corrections and parsing, improprieties for corree tion, examples for examination, 800 pp. New York, 1864. W. Joseph E. Worcester. A Dictionary of the Eng lish Language. With supplement containing over new words and entries, and a vocabulary of synonymes of words in general use. 4to, pp. 2058. Philadelphia, 1881. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.