=, not _blackening_ for boots and shoes.

=Blouse=--blowz, not blowss.

=Bologna=--b[=o]-l[=o]n'ya, not b[=o]-l[=o]'na. _Bologna_
sausage, _Bologna_ phial, etc.

=Bona fide=--b[=o]'na-f[=i]'de, not b[=o]'na-f[=i]de nor
b[)o]n'a-f[=i]de.

=Booth.= The _th_ is sounded as in the preposition _with_, not as
in _both_.

=Bouquet=--b[=o][=o]-k[=a]' or bo[=o][=o]'k[=a], not b[=o]-k[=a]'.

=Bourgeois=, meaning a kind of type, is pronounced buer-jois', not
like the following word:

=Bourgeois=, a citizen, pronounced b[=o][=o]r-zhwaw'.

=Brand-new=, not _bran-new_. Although the latter adjective is
much used, it is evidently a corruption of the former. An
article in its newness may be bright like a _brand_ of fire, or
the _brand_ of the manufacturer may remain intact, but there is
certainly no _bran_ about it.

=Breeches=--br[)i]tch'ez, not as spelled.

=Bretzel=, not _pretzel_. A brittle German cake.

=Brilliant.= A diamond of the finest cut, with its faces and
facets so arranged as to secure the greatest degree of
brilliancy--whence the name. The name to many conveys the idea
of paste, or imitation. A _rose_ diamond may be just as pure,
but its depth does not permit it to be made a _brilliant_ of
without a much greater loss of substance.

=Brougham=--br[=o][=o]m or br[=o][=o]'am, not br[=o]'am nor
brow'am. A kind of carriage.

=Burst=, =Burst= and =Bursting=, not _bust_, _busted_ and
_busting_.

C.

=Calculate= is often inappropriately used in lieu of _believe_,
_suppose_, _expect_, etc., as in the following sentences: "I
_calculate_ you are my friend;" "I _calculate_ the report is
true." Still worse than this passive misuse is that active one
of using the word in some such sense as this: "Doctor, I know
that you are a man of great intelligence and I have unlimited
confidence in your honor and ability; but I must say that I
think the course of treatment pursued by you during this
epidemic, is _calculated_ to increase the mortality among your
patients." How inconsistent with the encomium is the dreadful
accusation just following! As if the Doctor had sat down and
_calculated_ how he could cause injury rather than benefit.
Calculate means to ascertain