re is no hurry"--meaning, There is no reason for haste.

_Hurt_ for _Harm_. "It does no hurt." To be hurt is to feel pain, but
one may be harmed without knowing it. To spank a child, or flout a
fool, hurts without harming.

_Idea_ for _Thought_, _Purpose_, _Expectation_, etc. "I had no idea
that it was so cold." "When he went abroad it was with no idea of
remaining."

_Identified with_. "He is closely identified with the temperance
movement." Say, connected.

_Ilk_ for _Kind_. "Men of that ilk." This Scotch word has a narrowly
limited and specific meaning. It relates to an ancestral estate having
the same name as the person spoken of. Macdonald of that ilk means,
Macdonald of Macdonald. The phrase quoted above is without meaning.

_Illy_ for _Ill_. There is no such word as illy, for ill itself is an
adverb.

_Imaginary Line_. The adjective is needless. Geometrically, every line
is imaginary; its graphic representation is a mark. True the
text-books say, draw a line, but in a mathematical sense the line
already exists; the drawing only makes its course visible.

_In_ for _Into_. "He was put in jail." "He went in the house." A man
may be in jail, or be in a house, but when the act of entrance--the
movement of something from the outside to the inside of another
thing--is related the correct word is into if the latter thing is
named.

_Inaugurate_ for _Begin_, _Establish_, etc. Inauguration implies some
degree of formality and ceremony.

_Incumbent_ for _Obligatory_. "It was incumbent upon me to relieve
him." Infelicitous and work-worn. Say, It was my duty, or, if enamored
of that particular metaphor, It lay upon me.

_Individual_. As a noun, this word means something that cannot be
considered as divided, a unit. But it is incorrect to call a man,
woman or child an individual, except with reference to mankind, to
society or to a class of persons. It will not do to say, "An
individual stood in the street," when no mention nor allusion has been
made, nor is going to be made, to some aggregate of individuals
considered as a whole.

_Indorse_. See _Endorse_.

_Insane Asylum_. Obviously an asylum cannot be unsound in mind. Say,
asylum for the insane.

_In Spite of_. In most instances it is better to say despite.

_Inside of_. Omit the preposition.

_Insignificant_ for _Trivial_, or _Small_. Insignificant means not
signifying anything, and should be used only in contrast, expressed or
implied, with something