The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-11-09

: desperately in love with a dark.
eyed damsel who knew more
about the bloom of youth than
about correct English but when
! she sent him o gift, and the &C
companying note contained the
words, will you except this pre-
sent?' she killed love as dead as a
smelt ? pardon the slang). Per-
! baps his was love grammatical.
Have a care iE the use of 'lie'
and 'lay' Never say l laid down,
but ! laid my book down.
Watch 'act' and 'sit,' or in an
uuguarded moment they will set
you swkwardly back.
Instead Of Il had rather co. 'we
had better cross over i had
rather be a dog and bay the
moop,' say 4 Uould,' or I should
rather &c. Milton believed that
there is (not was) God Cato
believed that the soul is (not was)
immortal. In expressing a univer-
sal truth, use the present tense.
Bill Arp says Georgia girl will
not marry a boy who says I taken
Georgia girls show good sense in
their effort to teach boys the pro-
priety Of saying j TOOK
Carefully examine Expect and
Suspect and remember that there
is no such verb as suspicion. Say
L suspect him ; never Il suspicion
him. Expect means avait. 1t is
correct to say 1 expect him ) but
Incorrect to say I expect that be
will come
There is in our language no
such word as unthoughtedly. When
you m can that you acted thought
lessly or uDthinkingly, do not say
unthoughtedly.
Say-I differ from other men ;
l differ from the gentlemen. 1t is
usually thought correct TO say i
differ NTH you in opinion but l
differ from you iu appearance.'
But the Latin de Zero sustains me
in the opinion that we shoald use
from instead of Nth. On the
same principle, say one thing is
different from (not toy another.
And say parted from (rot witb)
my friends
Never use got for must. Say
Il must go'-'you must do 1t : not
I've got to CO.
When you say-'My sweetheart
has got beautiful hair you do
not pay your sweetheart a com,
pliment. Any one could get beauti
full hair.
In the economy of the lam
gusge, we have |, you and we
don't-ior do not; but we should
say he, she or it doesn't (not
don't).
Never use the expressions, pass
By, approve of, follow after, assem-
BILE together, reflect or return back,
continue on, rise up, and loom up.
When you mean that you can
do thing with difficulty, say-1
can hardly do it, instead of 4
can't hardly do it,
Say one thing corresponds to
another. Say the river abounds
Nth trout or trout abound in the
| river
Did you ever try to learn a per-
son anything9 If SO, you failed.
You can teach others, but every
one must learn for himself. What
is the use OF having book s0ith-
out you expect to study it p Never
use ,Dithout for anless.
Distinguish carefully between
so and such. 4 don't like SO hard
lessons'-is what you mean when
you say, 4 don't like such hard
lessons
When I was small boy, once
asked my teacher-'Can 1 go
out?' he quickly answered-'I
suppose you can, if you try
Since that time, have used may,
in asking for permission. Some
time ago l was dining out, and
my fair hostess, pointing to the
chicken, persisteutly asked-'Could
1 help you to some OF this foul ?
| I felt a wicked inclination to an.
swer in the words of my old
school uaster-'I suppose you
could if you would try DO not
use conversationalisL for conver.
satlonist agriculturalists for agri'
culturist; preventative for pre-.
ventive or inaugurate for begin.
Pass those molasses, if you
p!ease?' The only thing that
rescues that sentence from con.