the other, but the
good writer will name the one that he has in mind, not the other.
There are few errors more common than the one here noted.

_Sense_ for _Smell_. "She sensed the fragrance of roses." Society
English.

_Set_ for _Sit_. "A setting hen."

_Settee_ for _Settle_. This word belongs to the peasantry of speech.

_Settle_ for _Pay_. "Settle the bill." "I shall take it now and settle
for it later."

_Shades_ for _Shade_. "Shades of Noah! how it rained!" "O shades of
Caesar!" A shade is a departed soul, as conceived by the ancients; one
to each mortal part is the proper allowance.

_Show_ for _Chance_, or _Opportunity_. "He didn't stand a show." Say,
He had no chance.

_Sick_ for _Ill_. Good usage now limits this word to cases of nausea,
but it is still legitimate in sickly, sickness, love-sick, and the
like.

_Side_ for _Agree_, or _Stand_. "I side with the Democrats." "He
always sided with what he thought right."

_Sideburns_ for _Burnsides_. A form of whiskers named from a noted
general of the civil war, Ambrose E. Burnside. It seems to be thought
that the word side has something to do with it, and that as an
adjective it should come first, according to our idiom.

_Side-hill_ for _Hillside_. A reasonless transposition for which it is
impossible to assign a cause, unless it is abbreviated from side o'
the hill.

_Sideways_ for _Sidewise_. See _Endways_.

_Since_ for _Ago_. "He came here not long since and died."

_Smart_ for _Bright_, or _Able_. An Americanism that is dying out. But
"smart" has recently come into use for fashionable, which is almost as
bad.

_Snap_ for _Period_ (of time) or _Spell_. "A cold snap." This is a
word of incomprehensible origin in that sense; we can know only that
its parents were not respectable. "Spell" is itself not very
well-born.

_So--as_. See _As--as_.

_So_ for _True_. "If you see it in the Daily Livercomplaint it is so."
"Is that so?" Colloquial and worse.

_Solemnize_. This word rightly means to make solemn, not to perform,
or celebrate, ceremoniously something already solemn, as a marriage,
or a mass. We have no exact synonym, but this explains, rather than
justifies, its use.

_Some_ for _Somewhat_. "He was hurt some."

_Soon_ for _Willingly_. "I would as soon go as stay." "That soldier
would sooner eat than fight." Say, rather eat.

_Space_ for _Period_. "A long space of time." Space is so different a
thing from time that the two do not go