Peruse

This is one of those high-sounding terms too often employed when read would be much better.

Emigrants, Immigrants

These words are sometimes confounded. “Did you see the emigrants on the ‘Indiana,’ which arrived this morning?” “Did the immigrants go directly to Italy?” Exchange the italicized words in the two sentences and they will be correctly used.

Somewheres

The terminal s should be omitted in such words as anywheres, somewheres, nowheres, anyways, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts. In such cases as “Whereabouts did you find him?” and “We knew his whereabouts,” the s is properly retained.

Apart, Aside

“May I see you apart from the others?” It should be, “May I see you privately” or “aside”?

Fire, Throw

We fire a gun, but throw a stone. To fire a stone, fire him out of the house, fire him out of our employ, may be graphic ways of presenting the thought, but good writers never use them and good speakers should avoid them.