nd _licorice_ (_lickerish_
signifying _dainty_, and _licorice_ being a plant, or preparation from
it); _statute_ and _statue_; _ordinance_ and _ordnance_; _lease_ and
_leash_; _recourse_ and _resource_; _straight_ and _strait_ (_straight_
meaning _direct_, and _strait_, _narrow_); _immerge_ and _emerge_; _style_
and _stile_; _compliment_ and _complement_; _bass_ and _base_;
_contagious_ and _contiguous_; _eminent_ and _imminent_; _eruption_ and
_irruption_; _precedent_ and _president_; _relic_ and _relict_.

142. "The number of _emigrants_ arriving in this country is increasing and
alarming:" say, _immigrants_. _Emigrants_ are those _going out_ from a
country; _immigrants_, those _coming into_ it.

143. "I prefer _radishes_ to _cucumbers_:" pronounce _radishes_ exactly
as spelt, and not _redishes_; also, the first syllable of _cucumber_ like
_fu_ in _fuel_, and not as if the word were spelled _cowcumber_.

144. "The _two last_ letters were dated from Calcutta:" say, the _last
two_, &c.

145. "The soil in those islands is so very thin, that little is produced
in them _beside_ cocoa-nut trees:" "_beside_ cocoa-nut trees" means
strictly _alongside_, or _by the side_, of them. _Besides_, or _except_,
should be used. _Besides_ also signifies _in addition to_: as, "I sat
_beside_ the President, and conversed with him _besides_."

146. "He could neither _read nor write_:" say, more properly, _write nor
read_. All persons who can _write_ can _read_, but not all who _read_ can
_write_. This sentence, as corrected, is much stronger than in the other
form.

147. "He was _bred and born_ among the hills of the Hudson:" say, _born
and bred_, which is the natural order.

148. "THIS HOUSE TO LET:" more properly, _to be let_.

149. _Here_, _there_, _where_, with verbs of motion, are generally better
than _hither_, _thither_, _whither_; as, "_Come here_; _Go there_."
_Hither_, _thither_, and _whither_, which were used formerly, are now
considered stiff and inelegant.

150. "_As far as I_ am able to judge, the book is well written:" say, _So
far as_, &c.

151. "It is doubtful whether he will act _fairly or no_:" say, _fairly or
not_.

152. "The _camelopard_ is the tallest of known animals:" pronounce
_camelopard_ with the accent on _mel_; never say _camel leopard_. Few
words, by being mispronounced, occasion greater blunders than this term.

153. "He ran _again_ me;" or, "I stood _again_ the hydrant:" say,
_against_. This w