well together.

_Spend_ for _Pass_. "We shall spend the summer in Europe." Spend
denotes a voluntary relinquishment, but time goes from us against our
will.

_Square_ for _Block_. "He lives three squares away." A city block is
seldom square.

_Squirt_ for _Spurt_. Absurd.

_Stand_ and _Stand for_ for _Endure_. "The patient stands pain well."
"He would not stand for misrepresentation."

_Standpoint_ for _Point of View_, or _Viewpoint_.

_State_ for _Say_. "He stated that he came from Chicago." "It is
stated that the president is angry." We state a proposition, or a
principle, but say that we are well. And we say our prayers--some of
us.

_Still Continue_. "The rain still continues." Omit still; it is
contained in the other word.

_Stock_. "I take no stock in it." Disagreeably commercial. Say, I have
no faith in it. Many such metaphorical expressions were
unobjectionable, even pleasing, in the mouth of him who first used
them, but by constant repetition by others have become mere slang,
with all the offensiveness of plagiarism. The prime objectionableness
of slang is its hideous lack of originality. Until mouth-worn it is
not slang.

_Stop_ for _Stay_. "Prayer will not stop the ravages of cholera." Stop
is frequently misused for stay in another sense of the latter word:
"He is stopping at the hotel." Stopping is not a continuing act; one
cannot be stopping who has already stopped.

_Stunt_. A word recently introduced and now overworked, meaning a
task, or performance in one's trade, or calling,--doubtless a variant
of stint, without that word's suggestion of allotment and limitation.
It is still in the reptilian stage of evolution.

_Subsequent_ for _Later_, or _Succeeding_. Legitimate enough, but ugly
and needless. "He was subsequently hanged." Say, afterward.

_Substantiate_ for _Prove_. Why?

_Success_. "The project was a success." Say, was successful. Success
should not have the indefinite article.

_Such Another_ for _Another Such_. There is illustrious authority for
this--in poetry. Poets are a lawless folk, and may do as they please
so long as they do please.

_Such_ for _So_. "He had such weak legs that he could not stand." The
absurdity of this is made obvious by changing the form of the
statement: "His legs were such weak that he could not stand." If the
word is an adverb in the one sentence it is in the other. "He is such
a great bore that none can endure him." Say, so great a bore.

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