ssary to speak of our legs to strangers, there would be no
danger of compromising ourselves; but run-away and other
accidents are constantly occurring in which legs are broken or
otherwise injured. When a surgeon is called, if he is told that a
_limb_ is injured, he has one chance in four of guessing the
riddle. It is not always safe to trifle thus with some of the
serious, practical old followers of Esculapius. Before now they
have given such rebukes as to make people ashamed that they did
not say _leg_ in the first place; or they have left the bedside
abruptly with such a remark as: "When you find out whether it is
your arm or your leg, send for me again." If people will persist
in using _limb_ for _leg_, it is to be hoped that they will adopt
some adjective prefix to remove all ambiguity. How would
north-east, south-east, etc., do? Any one informed that the
_south-east limb_ was fractured, would know at once that it was
the _right leg_.

=Legate=--l[)e]g'ate, not l[=e]'g[=a]te.

=Legendary=--l[)e]j'end-a-ry, not l[=e]'j[)e]nd-a-ry.

=Leisure=--l[=e]'zhur, not l[)e]zh'ur, nor l[=a]'zhur.
=Leisurely= (l[=e]'zhur-ly).

=Length=, not l[)e]nth. Every letter is sounded, also, in
=lengthy=, =lengthen=, =lengthiness=, etc.

=Lenient=--l[=e]'ni-ent, not l[)e]n'i-ent. =Leniently=
(l[=e]'ni-ent-ly), etc.

=Lethe=--l[=e]'the, not l[=e]th; the _th_ is as in _both_. The
mythological and poetical name of a river of the infernal
region, the drinking of a portion of which caused forgetfulness
of the past.

=Lethean=--l[=e]-th[=e]'an, not l[=e]'the-an.

=Let's.= It should be remembered that _let's_ is really _let us_,
the apostrophe denoting the elision of the u. Such expressions
then as: "let's us go," "let's him and me go," should he, "let
us go" (or let's go), and "let him and me go;" for who wishes
to say "let us us go," or "let us him and me go."

=Leverage=--l[)e]v'er-aje, not l[=e]'ver-aje.

=Licorice=--l[)i]k'o-r[)i]s, not l[)i]k'er-[)i]sh.

=Lie.= See =Lay=.

=Lien=--l[=e]'en or l[=i]'en, not _leen_. A charge upon property
for the satisfaction of a debt.

=Lighted= is preferable to l[)i]t as the imperfect tense and past
participle of _light_. "He _lighted_ the