pply_. "Taxation furnished the money."
A pauper may furnish a house if some one will provide the furniture,
or the money to buy it. "His flight furnishes a presumption of guilt."
It supplies it.

_Generally_ for _Usually_. "The winds are generally high." "A fool is
generally vain." This misuse of the word appears to come of
abbreviating: Generally speaking, the weather is bad. A fool, to speak
generally, is vain.

_Gent_ for _Gentleman_. Vulgar exceedingly.

_Genteel_. This word, meaning polite, or well mannered, was once in
better repute than it is now, and its noun, gentility, is still not
infrequently found in the work of good writers. Genteel is most often
used by those who write, as the Scotchman of the anecdote joked--wi'
deeficulty.

_Gentleman_. It is not possible to teach the correct use of this
overworked word: one must be bred to it. Everybody knows that it is
not synonymous with man, but among the "genteel" and those ambitious
to be thought "genteel" it is commonly so used in discourse too formal
for the word "gent." To use the word gentleman correctly, be one.

_Genuine_ for _Authentic_, or _Veritable._ "A genuine document," "a
genuine surprise," and the like.

_Given_. "The soldier was given a rifle." What was given is the rifle,
not the soldier. "The house was given a coat (coating) of paint."
Nothing can be "given" anything.

_Goatee_. In this country goatee is frequently used for a tuft of
beard on the point of the chin--what is sometimes called "an
imperial," apparently because the late Emperor Napoleon III wore his
beard so. His Majesty the Goat is graciously pleased to wear his
beneath the chin.

_Got Married_ for _Married_. If this is correct we should say, also,
"got dead" for died; one expression is as good as the other.

_Gotten_ for _Got_. This has gone out of good use, though in such
compounded words as begotten and misbegotten it persists respectably.

_Graduated_ for _Was Graduated_.

_Gratuitous_ for _Unwarranted_. "A gratuitous assertion." Gratuitous
means without cost.

_Grueling_. Used chiefly by newspaper reporters; as, "He was subjected
to a grueling cross-examination." "It was grueling weather." Probably
a corruption of grilling.

_Gubernatorial_. Eschew it; it is not English, is needless and
bombastic. Leave it to those who call a political office a "chair."
"Gubernatorial chair" is good enough for them. So is hanging.

_Had Better_ for _Would Better_. This is not d