hose health is bad_.

2. "We have no _corporeal_ punishment here," said a schoolmaster.
_Corporeal_ is opposed to _spiritual_. Say, _corporal_ punishment.
_Corporeal_ means having a body.

3. "She is a _notable_ woman," as was said of the wife of the Shepherd of
Salisbury Plain,--meaning _careful_, and pronounced as though divided
_not-able_. This word is no longer current, with this pronunciation or
signification, except to a slight extent in England. It has become
obsolete, and its use now is in bad taste.

4. "Insert the _advertisement_ in the Weekly." Emphasize _vert_, and not
_ise_.

5. "He _rose up_, and left the room:" leave out _up_, as it is absurd to
say _rise down_. The Irishman who was _hoisted down_ the coal pit, did not
observe this rule.

6. "_Set down_ and rest yourself:" say _sit down_; _setting_ is said of
the sun in the west, but cannot be properly applied to a person taking a
seat. "Sit _down_" is not improper, though "rise _up_" (as in No. 5)
should never be used. _Sitting down_ expresses the act of appropriating a
chair, while _sitting up_ means _sitting erect_. _Sitting up_ also refers
to watching during the night with the sick.

7. "You have _sown_ it very neatly," said a seamstress to her apprentice:
say _sewed_, and pronounce so as to rhyme with _road_. The pronunciation
of _sew_, meaning "to use the needle," violates its spelling; it is the
same as that of _sow_, meaning "to scatter seed."

8. "This is a secret between _you and I_:" say, _you and me_. The
construction requires the objective case in place of _I_, which is in the
nominative. It is in still better taste to say, "This is a secret _with_
you and me."

9. "Let _you and I_ take a walk:" say, Let _you and me_, or, _Let us_. Who
would think of saying, _Let I go_? The expression "Let _I and you_" is
frequently heard, which contains the additional impropriety of putting the
first person before the second.

10. "He is going to _learn his brother_ Alfred how to knit nets:" say,
_teach_. The act of _communicating_ instruction is expressed by
"teaching," the act of _receiving_ it by "learning." The distinction
between these words was made as early as the time of Shakespeare, and
cannot be violated without incurring censure.

11. "John and Henry both read well, but John is the _best_ reader:" say,
the _better_ reader, as _best_ can be properly used only when _three or
more persons_, or objects, are compared.

12. "Thompson was t