the
words of a very eminent reviewer.] He should have said, "We have _scarcely
ever_ been called," or, "we have _almost never_."

266. "He is very _bigoted_:" never spell the last word with _double t_, a
very common mistake.

267. "The _Weekly Tribune_ has a large circulation:" pronounce Tribune as
if divided _Trib-une_, and not _Try-bune_.

268. "He said _as how_ you _was_ to do it:" say, he said _that you were to
do it_.

269. Never say, "_I acquiesce with you_," but, "_I acquiesce in your
proposal_, _in your opinion_," &c.

270. "He is a distinguished _antiquarian_:" say, _antiquary_.
_Antiquarian_ is an adjective; _antiquary_, a noun.

271. An injudicious disposition of a clause in a sentence frequently
creates great merriment in the reading. In Goldsmith's "History of
England," a book remarkable for its carelessness of style, we find the
following extraordinary sentence, in one of the chapters of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth: "This" [a communication to Mary Queen of Scots] "they
effected by conveying their letters to her by means of a brewer that
_supplied the family with ale through a chink in the wall of her
apartment_." A queer brewer that--to supply ale through a chink in the
wall! How easy the alteration to make the passage clear! "This they
effected by conveying their letters to her _through a chink in the wall of
her apartment, by means of a brewer that supplied the family with ale_."

272. "Lavater wrote on _Physiognomy_:" in the last word sound the _g_
distinctly, as _g_ is always pronounced before _n_, when it is not in the
same syllable; as, _indignity_, &c.

273. "She is a very amiable _girl_:" pronounce _girl_ as if written
_gurl_; _gal_ is a vulgarism; _gehl_ or _gul_ is an affectation of which
many polite persons are guilty.

274. "He built a large _granary_:" _do not_ pronounce _granary_ so as to
rhyme with _tannery_. Call the word _grainary_. Both pronunciations,
however, are given by scholars.

275. Beware of using _Oh!_ and _O_ indiscriminately: _Oh!_ is used to
express the emotion of _pain_, _sorrow_, or _surprise_; as, "_Oh!_ the
exceeding grace of God." _O_ is used to express _wishing_, _exclamation_,
or a direct _address_ to a person; as,

"O mother, will the God above
Forgive my faults like thee?"

276. Be careful to sound distinctly the _r_ in such words as _farther_,
_martyr_, _charter_, _murder_, &c. Never say, _fah-ther_, _mah-tyr_,
_chah-ter_ and _muh-der_. On the ot