A Grammatical Corrector; Or, a Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech: Being a Collection of Nearly Two Thousand Barbarisms, Cant Phrases, Colloquialisms, Quaint Expressions, Provincialisms, False Pronunciation, Perversions, Misapplication of Terms, and Other Kindred Errors of the English Language Peculiar to the Different States of the Union ... |
Other editions - View all
A Grammatical Corrector, Or, Vocabulary Of The Common Errors Of Speech ... Seth T Hurd No preview available - 2018 |
A Grammatical Corrector, Or, Vocabulary Of The Common Errors Of Speech ... Seth T Hurd No preview available - 2023 |
Common terms and phrases
adjective admit adverb allow American Angell's Reader apothecary appears auction averse barbarous calculated CHUNK clip colloquially common error condemned conversation correct Correctly spelled defective verb DICT E. H. BUTLER employed England English Dictionaries English Grammar ENGLISH LANGUAGE erroneous ERRORS OF SPEECH expect fåll FALSE PRONUNCIATION Fåte fell the tree following examples Galerius give Grammatical Corrector HAIN'T heard hence imperfect tense improperly Incorrectly pronounced intended intransitive intransitive verb James Elphinstone John John Ash language large number lexicographers LICK lift Lindley Murray mêt pine Middle and Southern misapplication mỏve Natural Philosophy never be correctly nippent nỏ Noah Webster NOTE TO TEACHERS noun obsolete occasionally participle peculiar Pennsylvania person perversion Pickering preposition Price published pupils quarto sense signifies smart chance speakers SPUNK stairs term thing TOTE usage verb VOCAB vulgar Webster wery William Witherspoon Worcester words and phrases writers