Part 2 — INDEX

In this index all references are to pages. Small italics are used for words and phrases; small roman type for subjects incidentally mentioned; capitals for subjects expressly, even if not fully, treated.

A

A-, 41-2.

A between Adjective and Noun, 329-30.

Absolute Construction, 115-6.

Absolute construction and stops, 222, 241-2, 265.

Abstract Words, 4, 5-6.

Accent, Sentence, 296-8.

Acquiesce to, 164.

Acte de malveillance, 30.

Adjectival clause, 235.

Adjectival Clause in Punctuation, 242-4.

Adverb and Adverbial Clause in Punctuation, 244-7.

Adverbial clause, 236.

Adverse from, 163.

Aesthophysiology, 23.

Aggravate, 59.

Aggress, 20.

Aim to, 132-3, 164.

Airs and Graces, Cap. III.

-al, 22, 42.

Albeit, 17, 194, 196-7.

Alit, 39-40.

Alliteration, 292.

Allusion, 307-8.

Alma mater, 27.

Almost quite, 339.

Also, conj., and &c., 360.

Altogether, 11.

Amateurs, 127, 194.

Ambiguity, 345-8.

Ambiguity, 88, 109, 117, 120, 127, 142, 144-5, 250, 264-5.

Ambiguity and punctuation, 264-5.

Ambiguous Enumeration, 348.

Ambiguous Position, 347-8.

Amend, n., 38-9.

Americanisms, 23-6.

A-moral, 41-2.

Amphitryon, 174.

Anachronism in thought, 198, 200.

And, 233-4, 245.

And which, 85-93.

And who, 85-93.

Anent, 3.

Animatedly, 47.

Another story, 175.

Antagonize, 4, 24, 26.

Antecedentem scelestum, 33.

Antics, 348-51.

Antithesis, 292, 350.

Anyway, 25.

Appendicitis, 19.

Archaism, 193-200.

Archaism, 17, 83, 103, 137.

Archaism, positive and negative, 198-200.

Archaism, sustained, 198-9.

Argon, 19.

Arise, 9.

Arrière pensée, 34.

As also, 189.

As and while clauses, slovenly, 189.

As, Case, 62-4.

As Clause, Causal, 298-300.

As far as, that, 168-70.

As if, 156-7.

As, Liberties with, 324-6.

As, Omission of, 324.

As to, 166-7.

As to whether, 333-4.

As who should say, 325-6.

At anyrate, 280.

At the letter, 33.

Aught, 194, 197.

Au pied de la lettre, 32.

Automedon, 174.

Auxiliaries, Split, 342-3.

Avail, 321.

Available, 43.

Averse from, 162-3.

Avoidance, clumsy, 17, 74, 125, 179, 277, 355-6, 357.

Await, 9.

Awful, 49-50.

B

Back-number, 25.

Back of, 25.

Bagehot, 210-2.

Balance Inversion, 182-7.

Balfour, 225, 249.

Ballon d’essai, 30.

Banal, 38-9.

Banality, 38-9.

Bang in the eye, 48.

Bastard enumeration, 251.

Be and do, 330.

Beadnell, 219.

Bedrock, 51.

Benefits of, 165.

Besant, 198.

Bethink, 9.

Bêtise, 27.

Between ... or, 328-9.

Between two stools, 327-8.

Between you and I, 61.

Bewilderedly, 47.

Bien entendu, 27.

Bike, 49.

Birrelling, 51.

Blooming, 49-50.

Boom, 52.

Borrow, G., 13.

Both ... as well as, 313.

Bounder, 48, 50.

Bow-street, 277.

Brachylogy, 326.

Brackets & double dashes, 272, 286.

Brackets and Stops, 270-1.

Brisken, 21.

Briticism, 43.

Brontë, C., 29, 358.

Bureaucracy, 46.

Burke, E., 111.

But, Superfluous, 334.

C

Cad, 50.

Camaraderie, 27.

Careless Repetition, 303-4.

Carlyle, 44, 349.

Case, 60-4.

Case, 6.

Case after as and than, 62-4.

Case, Compound Possessive, 64.

Case Confusion, 61-2.

Case in absolute construction, 115-6.

Case in Apposition, 60.

Case of Complement, 60.

Case of Relatives, 93-4, 99-100.

Causal as Clause, 298-300.

Cela va sans dire, 31.

Chamade, 29.

Chasseur, 27, 37.

Cherchez la femme, 35.

Chic, 51.

Circumlocution, 6.

Circumlocution, 165-70, 349.

Claim, 317-8.

Climb down, 51.

Closure, 23.

Clumsy patching, 355-6.

Coastal, 42.

Colloquialisms, 331.

Colon, 263-4.

Colon, changed usage of, 220, 222.

Come into her life, 215.

Comma before that, 236-7, 249-50.

Comma between Independent Sentences, 254-7.

Comma, distinct functions, 221-2.

Comma misplaced, 248-50.

Comma, Unaccountable, 262-3.

Commas, illogical, 241.

Commas, unnecessary, 232.

Commercialisms, 358-9.

Common case, 60.

Common parts, 314-6.

Comparatives, 70-4.

Complacent, 10.

Complaisant, 10.

Compositors, 219, 230, 266, 273, 282.

Compound passives, 319-21.

Compound possessive, 64, 122-3.

Compound verbs and inversion, 184-6.

Compound words, 20.

Comprehensively, 8.

Comprise, 12.

Concision, 18.

Conditionals, 156-8.

Conditionals, Subjunctive, 157-8.

Conditionals, subjunctive, 192-3, 195.

Confusion with Negatives, 321-3.

Conjunctions, Compound, 165-70.

Conjunctions, coordinating and subordinating, 63, 255.

Consequential, 17.

Consist of or in, 163-4.

Content myself by, 163.

Contest, vb, 12.

Continuance, 10.

Continuation, 10.

Continuity, 10.

Contradictions in Terms, 339-41.

Contumacity, 45.

Coordination of Relatives, 85-100.

Copula, Number, 65-7.

Corelli, 47.

Cornering, 51.

Correctitude, 21.

Coûte que coûte, 27-8.

Criterion of rightness, 3, 8, 41, 42, 165, 181, 347.

Crockett, 200.

Cryptic, 50.

Cui bono?, 35-6, 306.

D

Dans cette galère, 32.

Dashes, 266-75.

Dashes and Stops, 269-75.

Dashes, Debatable Questions, 269-74.

Dashes, Double, 270-1.

Dashes, Misuses, 274-5.

Dashes, Types, 267-9.

Dead metaphors, 201-9.

Decapitable Sentences, 303.

Defining Relatives, 75-85.

Defining relatives in punctuation, 240-1, 242-4.

Déjeuner, 27.

Démarche, 30.

Demean, 16.

Démenti, 29-30.

Demonstrative, Noun, and Participle or Adjective, 344-5.

Depend upon it, 213.

Dependable, 43.

Deplacement, 21.

Deprecate, 12.

Depreciate, 12.

De Quincey, 80.

Desultory, 18.

Détente, 30.

Determinedly, 47.

Differentiation, 10, 11, 46, 85.

Different to, 162.

Dilemma, 208.

Diplomatic French, 29-30.

Disagree from, 163.

Dishabille, 37.

Dispensable, 43.

Disposable, 43.

Distinction, 38-9.

Distinction, 217, 319.

Distinctly, 355.

Distinguished, 38-9.

Distrait, 27.

Do as Substitute Verb, 330.

Double dashes & brackets, 272, 286.

Double Emphasis, 341.

Double event, 51.

Double Harness, 311-4.

Doubtful gender, 67.

Doubt that, 158-60.

Dovetailing, 33, 308-10.

E

Each, 68.

-edly, 47.

E.g., 311.

Eirenicon, 26.

Either, 69.

Eke out, 14-5.

Elegant Variation, 175-80.

Elegant variation, 30, 163, 211, 357.

Eliot, George, 171.

Ellipse in Subordinate Clauses, 317.

Emblem, vb, 5.

Emerson, 26, 43, 44, 217.

Emphasis, Double, 341.

Emphatic Inversion, 190-1.

Employé, 36.

Endowed by, 164.

English, vb, 2.

Enjoinder, 43-4.

Ennui, 26, 37.

Entente, 29-30.

Entourage, 30.

Enumeration, 250-4.

Enumeration, Ambiguous, 348.

Envisage, 7.

Epithets, recherché, 350.

Epoch-making, 31, 50.

Equally as, 332.

Ere, 2, 194, 196-7.

Especial, 11.

Esprit d’escalier, 32.

Etc., Slovenly, 360.

Euchred, 51.

Eudaemometer, 23.

Euphemism, 12.

Euphony, 291-304.

Euphony, 46-7, 102, 104, 122, 132, 326;

and punctuation, 245.

Euphony with relatives, 84.

Euphuism, 12.

Evasion, 11.

Excepting, 46.

Exclamation and Question, 259-61.

Exclamation Mark, 258-62.

Exclamation Mark, Internal, 261-2.

Exclamatory Inversion, 181-2.

Ex-Participles, 110-1.

Experimentalize, 46.

Exploit, vb, 51.

Extemporaneous, 45.

F

Faits divers, 28.

Fall (autumn), 24.

False Scent, 345-6.

False scent, 93, 123-4, 246, 264-5, 274, 356.

Fanfaronnade, 29.

Far-fetched Words, 4-5.

Femininity, 38.

Ferrier, S., 67.

Fielding, 215.

Find fault to, 164.

Fix up, 25.

Flexibility, 41, 120.

Flood-of-Tears-and-Sedan-Chair, 173.

Floored, 51.

For, 233-4, 245.

For all it is worth, 48.

Forbid from, 164.

Forceful, 21-2.

Foreign Words, 26-39.

Foreign Words, Adaptation of, 37-9.

Foreign Words, Blunders, 34-6.

Foreign Words Translated, 30-3.

Foreword, 2.

Formation and Analogy, 41-3.

Formation Blunders, 39-41.

Formation, Ugly, 46-7.

Fresh Starts, 330-1.

Frills, 195.

Frontal attack, 51.

Frontispiece, 51-2.

Fudging in punctuation, 240-1.

Fused Participle, 117-25.

G

Gallant, 174.

Galore, 174.

Ganymede, 174.

Gaucherie, 27.

George Eliot, 171.

Gerund, 116-33.

Gerund and Infinitive, 129-33.

Gerund and Participle, 107-10, 119.

Gerund and Possessive, 116-25.

Gerund, Compound Subject, 123-4.

Gerund, Omission of Subject, 125-9.

Get the boot, 48.

Globetrotter, 51.

Go Nap, 51.

Go one better, 51.

Grammar, 311-31.

Grammar and Punctuation, 220-5, 235-63.

Green, J. R., 249, 359.

Group System in Punctuation, 228-30.

H

Half-world, 31.

Hebe, 174.

Hedge, vb., 51.

He-or-she, 67.

Hereof, 196.

He said, 282.

Homologate, 7.

Honey-coloured, 25.

Howbeit, 17, 194, 197.

However, 265.

How it pans out, 51.

Hugo, 226.

Humour, Polysyllabic, 171-2.

Humour, Types, 171-5.

Huxley, 225, 249.

Hybrid words, 41-2, 46.

Hyphens, 275-80.

Hyphens, 42.

I

Ideal, 75.

Idiom, 53, 161, 356.

Idioms, Maltreated, 336-8.

I. e., 311.

If and when, 334-5.

Ignorance crasse, 29.

I guess, 24.

Illegitimate Infinitives, 317-8.

Immanence, 50.

Immovability, 46.

Impersonal one, 328.

Impliedly, 47.

Inasmuch as, 166.

Incentive, 206.

Incongruity, 194.

Incontinently, 9.

Indirect question and punctuation, 238.

Individual, 52, 53-6.

Infinitive and Gerund, 129-33.

Infinitive, Omission of Subject, 125-9.

Infinitive Perfect, 154-6.

Infinitives, Illegitimate, 317-8.

Infinitive, Split, 319.

-ing, 107-10.

Initiative of, 164.

Innate, 12.

In nowise, 280.

Insensate, 9.

In so far as, that, 168-70.

Instil, 12.

Insuccess, 21.

Intellectuals, 22-3.

Intelligence, 18.

Intensate, 44.

Intervening-noun error in number, 66-7.

Intimism, 38-9.

Intimity, 38.

Inversion, 180-93.

Inversion and compound verbs, 184-6.

Inversion and emphasis, 182, 184.

Inversion, Balance, 182-7.

Inversion, Emphatic, 190-1.

Inversion, Exclamatory, 181-2.

Inversion in as or than clauses, 188-9.

Inversion in relative clauses, 188.

Inversion in Syntactic Clauses, 187-9.

Inversion, Miscellaneous, 191-3.

Inversion, Negative, 190-1.

In view of, 167-8.

Inwardness, 50, 52.

Irony, 215-6.

Irony, 15.

Irreparable, 12.

Italics, 186.

Italics and irony, 216.

It should seem, 194.

It’s me, 61.

It ... that, 104-7.

It were, 195.

J

Jehu, 174.

Jingles, 291-2.

Jonathan Wild, 215.

Journalese, 351-2.

Journalese, 7, 352, 357.

Judicial, 8.

Just, 25.

K

Kipling 24-5, 175.

Knock out, 51.

L

Lamb, Charles, 193.

Lapsus calami, 21.

Latin Abbreviations, &c., 311.

Laughable, 43.

Laxity, disappearance of, 108, 110-1.

Laxity in punctuation, 235, 244-7.

Laze, 51-2.

Leading question, 306-7.

Legislature, 10.

Lie and lay, 40.

Like, 331.

-like, 278.

Literary critics’ words, 38-9.

Logic and Punctuation, 220-5.

Logic and rhetoric in punctuation, 252.

Log-rolling, 51.

Long and Short Derivatives, 44-6.

Long sentences, 226, 300.

Long words, 349-50.

Loquently, 20.

-ly, 47, 291.

M

Macaulay, 350.

Malaprops, 8-18.

Maltreated Idioms, 336-8.

Mannerism, 47, 190, 195, 210, 212, 217.

Meaning, 331-45.

Meaningless while, 357-8.

Me, ethic, 199.

Mercury, 174.

Meredith, 198.

Metaphor, 200-9.

Metaphor, live and dead, 201-9.

Metaphysical, 16.

Meticulous, 38-9, 349.

Metrical Prose, 295.

Misplacement of Words, 346-7.

Misquotation, 305-7.

Mixed metaphor, 203-9.

Mob, 49.

Monstrosity stops, 259, 283, 286-7, 290.

Morale, 34.

More and more than ever, 73.

More easily imagined than described, 213.

More honoured in the breach, 306.

More than I can help, 74.

Most, 75.

Most of any, 74-5.

Mutual, 56-8.

My and mine, 40-1.

N

Naïveté, 37-8.

Naivety, 38.

Native words, 2, 37.

Negative Confusion, 321-3.

Negative Inversion, 190-1.

Negatives, resolved and compound, 323.

Négligé, 26, 37.

Negotiate, 51-2.

Neither, 69.

Neither ... or, 313.

Neologisms, 18-23.

Neologisms, scientific, 23.

Newspaper style, 162, 178, 180, 226, 262, 266, 351-2.

Nice, 49.

No and none, 41.

Noisiness, 202-3.

Nom de guerre, 34.

Nom de plume, 34.

Nonce-words, 19-20.

Non-defining Relatives, 75-85.

Non est, 33.

Nouns and abstract expression, 5.

Nouns of Multitude, 69.

Nouns used adjectivally, 42, 276.

Number, 65-70.

Number of Copula, 65-7.

O

Oblivion to, 165.

Oblivious to, 161.

Observance, 9.

Œuvre, 27-8.

Of sorts, 51.

Oft, 194.

Oft-times, 194.

Ohne Hast ohne Rast, 33.

Old-fashioned enough to, 213.

Olfactory organ, 171.

Omission of as, 324.

Omission of Relatives, 101-2.

Omission of relatives, 84.

Omission of that, conj., 356-7.

On a moment’s notice, 164.

One, 67.

One, Impersonal, 328.

One’s and his, 328.

One’s or his, 67.

On your own, 51.

Oppositely, 44.

Orient, vb., 31.

Originality, Cheap, 217-8.

Ornament, 35, 215.

Ostentation, 27, 31, 349.

Our and ours, 40-1.

Overloading, 343-4.

Over-stopping, 231-4.

Over-stopping, 245, 262-3.

P

Parenthesis, 269, 270.

Parenthesis, 247-50.

Parenthesis in Relative Clauses, 94-5.

Partially, 45-6.

Participle and Gerund, 107-10, 119.

Participles, 110-6.

Participles Absolute, 115-6.

Participles Unattached, 112-5.

Participles with my, &c., 111-2.

Passive monstrosities, 43.

Passives, Compound, 319-21.

Patching, Clumsy, 355-6.

Paulo-post future, 17.

Pedantry, 34, 42, 64, 129, 162.

Penchant, 27.

Perchance, 4, 196.

Perfect Infinitive, 154-6.

Perfection, vb., 44-5.

Period, 226.

Perseverant, 21-2.

Personification, 68.

Perspicuity, 8-9.

Peter out, 48.

Pet Phrases, 359-60.

Phantasmagoria, 35.

Phase, 5.

Phenomenal, 50.

Philistine, 50.

Picturesque, 350.

Picturesquities, 20.

Placate, 24, 26.

Playful Repetition, 172-3.

Play the game, 51.

Pleonasm, v. Redundancies.

Poetic words, 3, 349.

Polysyllabic humour, 51, 54.

Polysyllabic Humour, 171-2.

Pontificalibus, 33.

Possessive, absolute, 40-1.

Possessive and Gerund, 116-25.

Possessive, Compound, 64.

Possessive, compound, 122-3.

Possible, 318.

Preciosity, 2.

Predication, 13.

Prediction, 13.

Preface, 2.

Prefer, 318.

Preposition at end of clause, 62, 84, 99.

Prepositions, 161-70.

Prepositions, Compound, 165-70;

Omitted, 165;

Repeated, 293;

Superfluous, 165.

Pretend, 318.

Preventative, 46.

Probable, 318.

Procession, 11.

Promote, 6.

Pronominal variation, 175.

Proportion, 300-3.

Provided, 13-4.

Prudential, 45.

Psychological moment, 50, 52.

Punctuation, Cap. IV.

Punctuation and ambiguity, 264-5.

Punctuation and neatness, 284.

Punctuation and relatives, 78, 242-4.

Punctuation, Difficulties, 219-24.

Punctuation, full and slight, 225.

Punctuation, group system, 228-31.

Punctuation in scientific and philosophic work, 225, 231.

Punctuation, Logic, and Rhetoric, 220-5.

Punctuation, Spot Plague, 226-31.

Q

Qua, 29.

Quand même, 27.

Question and Exclamation, 259-61.

Question-mark, Internal, 261-62.

Quieten, 45

Quotation, 305-11.

Quotation, half-and-half, 237-8, 289.

Quotation marks, 280-90.

Quotation marks and irony, 216.

Quotation marks and slang, 48, 49, 50.

Quotation marks and Stops, 282-8.

Quotation marks misplaced, 288-9.

Quotation marks, Single and Double, 287-8.

Quotation marks, superfluous, 280-82.

Quotation, Trite, 310-1.

Quotations cut up, 309-10.

R

Racial, 22-3, 42.

Railway names, 276-7.

Raison d’être, 26.

Reader, 2-3, 7, 36, 98, 210, 225, 228, 230, 231-3, 253, 268, 269,

280-1, 310, 347-8, 355.

Reading aloud, 296, 300.

Recasting, 64, 67, 120, 125, 177-8, 185, 226, 231, 232-3, 239, 241,

257, 284, 330, 355-6, 357.

Recliner, 20.

Record, adj., 51-2.

Recrudescence, 5, 15-6.

Rectitudinous, 20.

Rédaction, 27.

Redundancies, 332-3.

Regard, 324.

Regenesis, 20.

Régime, 36.

Relative and participle, 327.

Relative clauses and inversion, 188.

Relative Coordination, 85-100.

Relative, Miscellaneous Uses and Abuses, 96-107.

Relative, Omission of Preposition, 102-3.

Relative omitted, 101-2.

Relatives, 75-107.

Relatives and punctuation, 78, 242-4.

Relatives, Case, 93-4, 99-100.

Relatives Defining and Non-Defining, 75-85.

Relatives, Parenthesis, 94-5.

Relatives, Sequence of, 293-4.

Reliable, 42-3.

Remindful, 21.

Repetition, 209-13.

Repetition, Careless, 303-4.

Repetition, Playful, 172-3.

Requisition, 11.

Research, 11.

Resource, 13.

Reverend, 8.

Rhetoric, 234, 236.

Rhetorical repetition, 209, 213.

Rhetoric and Punctuation, 220-5.

Right along, 25.

Romance Words, 1, 3.

Royal pronoun, 178.

Run the show, 51.

S

Said with inversion, 192.

Same, the, 358.

Sans, 27.

Save, 2-3, 196.

Saxon Words, 1, 2-3, 7.

Scandalum magnatum, 34.

Schadenfreude, 27-8.

Scott, 174.

Seasonable, 43.

Self-consciousness, 351.

Semicolon and independent sentences, 255.

Semicolon and Subordinate Clauses, 257-8.

Semicolon, distinct functions of, 222.

Sense and sound, 296.

Sensibleness, 44-5.

Sentence, 112, 254-5.

Sentence Accent, 296-8.

Shall and will, 133-54.

Shall, archaic and literary, 137, 153, 194-5.

Short and Long Words, 6-7.

Shrimp-pink, 25.

Sic, 90, 311.

Signpost connexion, 183, 184.

Since several days, 32.

Skilled, 17.

Slang, 47-53.

Slang and idiom, 53.

Slang, Various Origins, 49-51.

Slang with quotation marks, 48.

Slating, 51.

Smartness, 351.

Smollett, 111.

So far as, that, 168-70.

Somewhat, &c., 352-5.

Sordor, 43.

Sound and sense, 296.

Soupçon, 27.

Special, 11.

Spencer, 193.

Spirit of the staircase, 32.

Split Auxiliaries, 342-3.

Split Infinitive, 319.

Spot-Plague, 226-31.

Standpoint, 25.

Stands to reason, 213-4.

Status quo, 26.

Stave off, 206-7.

Steep (slang), 48.

Sterne, 266.

Stevenson, 198-9.

Stops and tone symbols, 220, 285.

Street names, 276-7.

Stronger, adv., 40.

Stumped, 51.

Style, 348-end.

Styles, various, 7-8.

Subject, &c., and Verb in Punctuation, 239-42.

Subjunctive, 154, 157-8.

Subjunctive conditionals, 195.

Substantival Clause in Punctuation, 235-8, 265.

Such, 358-9.

Such who, which, and that, 103-4.

Summerly, 20.

Superfluous but and though, 334.

Superlatives, 74-5.

Superlatives, Carlylese, 349.

Superlatives without the, 216-17.

Super-sensitized, 20.

Superstitions, 62, 99, 245, 266, 273, 319.

Surprisedly, 47.

Syntax, Cap. II.

T

Tache, 28.

Tackle, 51.

Take a back seat, 51.

Take it lying down, 51.

Take my word for it, 213.

Tautology, 331-2.

Tautology, 56.

Tear and wear, 217-8.

Telegram, 19, 23.

Tell-tale errors, 21, 53, 56, 235, 254, 261, 308.

Tête-à-tête, 26.

Thackeray, 88, 198.

Than, Case, 62-4.

Than whom, 64.

That and which, 242-3.

That and which (who), 80-5.

That (conjunction), Omission of, 356-7.

That (relative) of persons, 83-4.

That resumptive, 330-1.

That, Sequence of, 294-5.

That’s him, 60.

The exception proves, &c., 306.

Their, 67.

The more, 70-4.

The more, 218.

Thereanent, 29, 194.

Therefore, 265.

Thereto, 196.

Theretofore, 196.

The same, 358.

The ... that (resolved interrogative), 101.

Thither, 5, 196.

Those interested, 344-5.

Those sort, 331.

Though superfluous, 334.

Thrasonical, 50, 52.

Tinker with, 164.

Today, 280.

To have ..., 154-6.

Tomorrow, 280.

Tone symbols and stops, 285.

To the foot of the letter, 32.

Transcendentally, 10-11.

Translate, 2.

Translation of Foreign Words, 30-3.

Transpire, 4, 16, 24.

Trite Phrases, 213-5.

Trite Quotation, 310-1.

Trow, 194.

Truisms, 339-41.

Trustedly, 47.

Trustfulness, 9.

Types of Humour, 171-5.

U

-ude, 21.

Unconscious to, 161.

Under dog, 51.

Under-stopping, 234-5.

Unequal Yokefellows, &c., 311-14.

Unique, 58-9, 339.

Unquiet, n., 21.

Up to date, 51.

V

Verbal noun, 108.

Verberant, 20.

Vexedly, 47.

Vide, 311.

Vieille escrime, 28.

Vieilles perruques, 28.

Vieux jeu, 28.

Violence, 11.

Vividity, 46-7.

Vocabulary, Cap. I.

Vocabulary, General Rules, 1-4.

Vocabulary, prose and poetry, 3.

Vulgarism, 103, 118.

Vulgarisms, 331.

W

Waddle, 25.

Walking stick, 276.

War-famous, 20.

Wens and Hypertrophied Members, 300-3.

Were, 157-8.

What, antecedent-relative, 100-1.

What ever...?, 331.

Whatever...?, 331.

What, relative and interrogative, 100-1.

Whereof, 196.

While and as, clauses, slovenly 189.

While, Meaningless, 357-8.

Whimsical, 42.

Who and whom, 61.

Whole-hogging, 51.

Will and shall, 133-54.

Will not do this thing, 214.

Wind-flower, 4.

Wire, vb., 19.

With a view to, 167-8.

With the view of, 167, 168.

Word-formation, 37-47.

World policy, 51.

Worn-out Humorous Phrases, 173-5.

Worthy, 174, 214.

Wot, 194.

Write you, 165.

Wrong Turning, 316.

Y

Your and yours, 40-1.

You shall find, 194.

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