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Title: Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31766]

Language: English

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"NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN!"

FIVE HUNDRED MISTAKES
OF DAILY OCCURRENCE
IN SPEAKING, PRONOUNCING, AND WRITING
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,
CORRECTED.

"Which--if you but open--
You will be unwilling,
For many a shilling,
To part with the profit
Which you shall have of it."

[_The Key to Unknown Knowledge._--LONDON, 1569.

"It is highly important, that whatever we learn or know, we should
know CORRECTLY; for unless our knowledge be correct, we lose half its
value and usefulness."--_Conversations on Botany._

NEW-YORK:
DANIEL BURGESS & CO., 60 JOHN STREET.
1856.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
WALTON BURGESS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

PREFACE.

This book is offered to the public, not to be classed with elaborate or
learned works, nor expected, like some of its more pretending companions
among the offspring of the press, to run the gauntlet of literary
criticism. It was prepared to meet the wants of persons--numbered by
_multitudes_ in even the most intelligent and refined communities--who
from deficiency of education, or from carelessness of manner, are in the
habit of misusing many of the most common words of the English language,
distorting its grammatical forms, destroying its beauty, and corrupting
its purity. The most thorough mode that could be adopted to correct such
errors, would