Chapter XXIII: Part II (4)

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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