ssure_.

_Propose_, meaning "to offer" should not be confused with _purpose_
meaning "to intend."

_Proposition_ should not be confounded with _proposal_. A _proposition_
is a statement of a statement or a plan. A _proposal_ is the
presentation or statement of an offer.

_Providing_ should not be used for _provided_.

_Quality_ should never be used as an adjective or with an adjective
sense. "Quality clothes" is meaningless: "Clothes of quality" equally
so. All clothes have quality and the expression has meaning only when
the quality is defined as good, bad, high, low, and so forth.

_Quit_, "to go away from" is not the same as _stop_.

_Quite_ means "entirely," "wholly," and should never be used in the
modifying sense as if meaning _rather_ or _somewhat_. "Quite a few" is
nonsense.

_Raise_ is a much abused word. It is never a noun. As a verb it should
be distinguished from _rear_ and _increase_, as in such phrases as "He
was _raised_ in Texas." "The landlord _raised_ my rent."

_Rarely ever_ should not be used for _rarely_ or _hardly ever_.

_Real_ should not be used in the sense of _very_.

_Reference_ should be used with _with_ rather than _in_. Say _with_
reference to, not _in_ reference to. The same rule applies to the words
_regard_ and _respect_. Do not say "_in regards to_," say "_with regard
to_."

_Remember_ is not the same as _recollect_, which means "to remember by
an effort."

_Rendition_ should not be used for _rendering_.

_Researcher_ has no standing as a word.

_Reside_ in the sense of live, and residence in the sense of house or
dwelling are affectations and should never be used.

_Retire_ should not be used in the sense of "go to bed."

_Right_ should not be used in the sense of _duty_. "You _had a right_ to
warn me," should be "It was your duty to warn me, or you ought to have
warned me." _Right_ should not be used in the sense of _very_. Such
expressions as _right now_, _right off_, _right away_, _right here_ are
not now in good use.

_Same_ should not be used as a pronoun. This is a common usage in
business correspondence but it is not good English and can be easily
avoided without sacrificing either brevity or sense. _Same as_ in the
sense of _just as_, _in the same manner_ should be avoided.

_Score_ should not be used for _achieve_ or _accomplish_.

_Set_ should not be confused with _sit_. To set means "to cause to sit."

_Sewage_, meaning the contents of a sewer, shoul