_Liable_ for _Likely_. "Man is liable to err." Man is not liable to
err, but to error. Liable should be followed, not by an infinitive,
but by a preposition.

_Like_ for _As_, or _As if_. "The matter is now like it was." "The
house looked like it would fall."

_Likely_ for _Probably_. "He will likely be elected." If likely is
thought the better word (and in most cases it is) put it this way: "It
is likely that he will be elected," or, "He is likely to be elected."

_Line_ for _Kind_, or _Class_. "This line of goods." Leave the word to
"salesladies" and "salesgentlemen." "That line of business." Say, that
business.

_Literally_ for _Figuratively_. "The stream was literally alive with
fish." "His eloquence literally swept the audience from its feet." It
is bad enough to exaggerate, but to affirm the truth of the
exaggeration is intolerable.

_Loan_ for _Lend_. "I loaned him ten dollars." We lend, but the act of
lending, or, less literally, the thing lent, is a loan.

_Locate_. "After many removals the family located at Smithville." Some
dictionaries give locate as an intransitive verb having that meaning,
but--well, dictionaries are funny.

_Lots_, or _a Lot_, for _Much_, or _Many_. "Lots of things." "A lot of
talk."

_Love_ for _Like_. "I love to travel." "I love apples." Keep the
stronger word for a stronger feeling.

_Lunch_ for _Luncheon_. But do not use luncheon as a verb.

_Mad_ for _Angry_. An Americanism of lessening prevalence. It is
probable that anger is a kind of madness (insanity), but that is not
what the misusers of the word mad mean to affirm.

_Maintain_ for _Contend_. "The senator maintained that the tariff was
iniquitous." He maintained it only if he proved it.

_Majority_ for _Plurality_. Concerning votes cast in an election, a
majority is more than half the total; a plurality is the excess of one
candidate's votes over another's. Commonly the votes compared are
those for the successful candidate and those for his most nearly
successful competitor.

_Make_ for _Earn_. "He makes fifty dollars a month by manual labor."

_Mansion_ for _Dwelling_, or _House_. Usually mere hyperbole, a
lamentable fault of our national literature. Even our presidents,
before Roosevelt, called their dwelling the Executive Mansion.

_Masculine_ for _Male_. See _Feminine_.

_Mend_ for _Repair_. "They mended the road." To mend is to repair, but
to repair is not always to mend. A stocking is mended, a road