144. Brutus and Aruns killed one another; say, each other.
145. Pray, sir, who may you be? say, who are you?
146. Their character as a warlike people is much degenerated; say, has much, &c.
147. He is gone on an errand; pronounce errand as it is written, and not arrant.
148. In a popular work on arithmetic we find the following sum,—"If for 7s. 8d., I can buy 9 lbs. of raisins, how much can I purchase for £56 16s.?" say, "what quantity can I," &c. Who would think of saying "how much raisins?"
149. Be very careful in distinguishing between indite and indict; key and quay; principle and principal; check and cheque; marshal and martial; counsel and council; counsellor and councillor; fort and forte; draft and draught; place and plaice; stake and steak; satire and satyr; stationery and stationary; ton and tun; levy and levee; foment and ferment; fomentation and fermentation; petition and partition; practice and practise; Francis and Frances; dose and doze; diverse and divers; device and devise; wary and weary; salary and celery; radish and reddish; treble and triple; broach and brooch; ingenious and ingenuous; prophesy and prophecy; fondling and foundling; lightning and lightening; genus and genius; desert and dessert; currier and courier; pillow and pillar; executer and executor; suit and suite; ridicule and reticule; lineament and liniment; track and tract; lickerish and licorice; statute and statue; ordinance and ordnance; lease and leash; recourse and resource; straight and strait; immerge and emerge; style and stile; compliment and complement; bass and base; contagious and contiguous; eminent and imminent; eruption and irruption; precedent and president; relic and relict.
150. I prefer radishes to cucumbers; pronounce radishes exactly as it is spelt, and not redishes, and the u in the first syllable of cucumber as in fuel, and not as if the word were cowcumber.
151. Never pronounce barbarous and grievous, bartarious and grievious.
152. The two last chapters are very interesting; say, The last two, &c.
153. The soil on these islands is so very thin, that little vegetation is produced upon them beside cocoanut trees; say, with the exception of, &c.