Wind--words 1838
Window 1277
Winds--contrary 348
Winds--high 783
Winds--March 38
Winds--rain 688
Wine--barrel 75
Wine--counsels 320
Wine--old 1180
Wings--covers me 336
Wings--flying 600
Winter--Candlemas 192
Winter--green 729
Winter--warm 1720
Winter--woodcock, one 1828
Winter--woodcock 1567
Winter wind 1082
Wisdom--husband 831
Wisdom--age 905
Wise--adversity 5
Wise--some 1197
Wise--word enough 1839
Wise--forty 741
Wise--himself 785
Wise--lucky 1016
Wise--merry 1069
Wise--penny 1232
Wise--twice 1682
Wise folk 611
Wishers and woulders 814
Wist, had I 117
Wit--brevity 163
Wit, mother 1114
Wit, need of 673
Wit--pound of 430
Wit--sloth 1453
Wit is out 1796
Wit's plough 1225
Wiving--counsel 321
Wiving--destiny 411
Woe--angry men 31
Woe--hasty men 757
Woe--wilful man 1770
Wolf--growing youth 1873
Woman--beaten 85
Woman--fair 386
Woman--head 763
Woman--rules 1348
Woman--silence 1439
Woman--tongue 1639
Woman--weep 1745
Woman's mind 1082
Woman's tongue 913
Woman's work 1823
Woman's yes 1868
Women--discreet 429
Women--drive 1349
Women--England 488
Women--glasses 680
Women--turned 1679
Women--words 1837
Wood--beans 78
Wood--old 1180
Wood--out of 791
Wood--trees 1657
Woodcock--winter 1567, 1828
Woodcock's thigh 1211
Woods--ears 576
Wool--little 368
Wool--shaving 1422
Word--true 1663
Words--leaves 403
Words--soft 1465
Words--wranglers 1860
Words swim 1793
Work--all 1257
Work--play 1256
Work--quick 1324
Work--slavery 1448
Work--woman's 1823
Workman--bad 1642
Workman--tools 1643
Work on 470
Workshops--devil's 832
World--enjoys it 714
World--fashion 550
World's end 872
Worm--bird 465
Worth--spend 1499
Worth--want 1712
Worthy--parents 1210
Wound--green 728
Wound--words 1835
Wound--evil 510
Wounds--afraid of 12
Wrinkled--faces 1321
Wrinkles--purse 483
Wrong--forget 1356
Wrong--losers 997
Y
Young--idle 835
Young--spare 1485
Young men--die 422
Young men--woo 1827
Youth--follies 601
Youth--money 1099
Youth--old age 1171
Youth--reckless 1342
Youth--save 1390
Youth--time 1625
THE END.
A DICTIONARY OF
DAILY BLUNDERS.
_Containing a Collection of Mistakes often made
in Speaking and Writing._
CORRECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES,
AND ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
BY THE AUTHOR OF
'A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS,'
'A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS,' ETC. ETC.
Price 1s. cloth; 1s. 6d. half-bound in leather, red edges.
EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Useful knowledge. . . . Invaluable alike as desk or pocket companion.
. . . Treats of the multitude of errors daily made in speaking and
writing, and offers corrections collected from the best authorities. Its
dictionary form enables any one in doubt to readily turn to the word
required. . . . Its value and necessity are unquestionable.--_Morning
Post._
A dictionary has just been published, enumerating the common blunders of
speech and writing, which are constantly perpetrated. Such a work seems,
at first sight, a very formidable undertaking, and the complete mastery
of its text promises many a wretched quarter of an hour to those on whom
its valuable information is inflicted. . . . There are some mistakes
which appear to be ineradicable, and will not be corrected, even if the
Blunder Dictionary arrives at its thousandth edition. . . . Next to the
slave who attended a Roman Emperor in triumph to remind him that he was
mortal . . . surely the object most to be dreaded is the editor of a
Dictionary of Blunders, arranged on such a complete and systematic
plan, as to form a court of appeal to which every household can be
conveniently referred. . . . The volume is actually published, and
contains 126 closely printed pages, containing examples of errors that
are to be found in the daily speech even of well-educated persons. . . .
The Editor is to be thanked for his useful book.--_Daily Telegraph._
Pleasantly written. . . . In its dimensions it is handy, and the utility
of its contents is beyond question. The legion of "self-educated" men
who adorn our age should not be without this useful companion, for, by
its aid, the blunders of speech more particularly common to them would
be advantageously avoided.--_Citizen._
So far as we can discover from a brief perusal of the handy little
volume, the author's work has been very well done.--_Athenæum._
A well-meant attempt to keep people clear of some common errors. . . .
There is certainly evidence enough, of one kind or another, in the
volume before us, of the existence of blunders which could hardly have
been suspected.--_Saturday Review._
Beautifully printed. . . . may be confidently recommended to those for
whose use it is designed.--_Manchester Guardian._
. . . Of value, and worth knowing. . . . Amusing, and to an extent,
useful also.--_Dublin Freeman's Journal._
Will be found useful and amusing. . . . It is arranged alphabetically,
and contains a considerable vocabulary of words supposed to present a
difficulty either in spelling, meaning, or pronunciation. Some of the
comments on popular mistakes are very well done.--_Record._
Those who are not quite sure as to their grammar, their pronunciation,
or their spelling, will doubtless find this pocket volume very
useful.--_Sunday Times._
Will be of use to every one who has either to speak or to write. As this
embraces all mankind, the book may be said to be of value to everybody.
Very neatly got up.--_Scotsman._
A glance through the pages of this book is very amusing, almost as
entertaining as a selection of wit and humour would be. There is no
doubt as to the general accuracy and usefulness of the corrections.
. . . . We heartily recommend the Dictionary.--_Liverpool Albion._
Corrected from the best authorities and arranged in alphabetical
order. . . . The student can turn readily to the remarks made upon any
particular mistake.--_Dublin Evening Mail._
A useful aid to correct speech.--_Literary World._
The value of a book is not always to be reckoned by its size. This
little dictionary would go into the waistcoat pocket, yet every word in
it has its value, and the common mistakes in speaking and writing which
it undertakes to correct are nearly always put right in the best way. In
a few instances in which we are inclined to criticise, a conflict of
opinion among the authorities would probably be found to
exist.--_Bookseller._
A manual such as this will not be out of place at the right hand of all
who desire not to blunder.--_Dundee Advertiser._
An excellent little book, which cannot be too well known or too widely
circulated. We know a large number of persons who would preserve
themselves from perpetrating the most unfortunate blunders if they would
carefully consult it.--_Christian World._
The compiler of _A Dictionary of Daily Blunders_ at least deserves
credit for an excellent idea. . . . Even the most practised speaker or
writer is liable to momentary uncertainty about simple points of
pronunciation or spelling--not to say construction of sentences. . . .
Contains some good material. . . . A useful feature of the book is the
publication in full of participles, in the spelling of which a writer is
often apt to get confused, and which are rarely included in
dictionaries.--_Nottingham Guardian._
Evidently at great pains, the author of this useful handbook has brought
together a large number of blunders which are heard often in speaking
and seen in writing. We have gone rather minutely over the work, and can
say that the corrections are nearly all just. . . . The book will be
useful to many, and the reader will be surprised to find in what a great
number of instances he is wrong in the usage and pronunciation of words.
We recommend this handbook heartily.--_Dundee Courier._
We can speak highly of this publication. . . . A credit to the publishers,
and we have little doubt will have a very large circulation.--_Wigan
Observer._
The selection has been very judiciously made. One must be a remarkably
faultless speaker and writer who does not get several useful hints from
this booklet.--_Aberdeen Journal._
. . . There is in this small volume a good deal of really useful matter,
and many readers (especially among those who are also writers) might
derive more benefit from its study than would by themselves be
imagined.--_Exchange._
_Excerpts from the Press Notices of Familiar Latin Quotations and
Proverbs._
A translation of the Latin phrases which are of most common use in the
literature of the day, which is likely to be useful.--_The Echo._
In a cheap and handy little volume we have here a large selection of
Latin phrases, proverbs, and quotations. It is ample in all respects,
and is likely to be of great and general utility.--_Sunday Times._
To newspaper men, public speakers, and correspondents in every
direction, this little "Vade mecum" will prove most
useful.--_News-Vendor._
The English translations are given as literally as possible, and they
frequently embrace all the most generally accepted renderings. So far as
we have been able to detect, the book has been carefully edited by a
competent and capable writer.--_Railway Fly-Sheet._
A small work of reference such as has been greatly needed. We recommend
it especially to all readers who want to understand what they read, and
do not know Latin, and to all writers who want to seem more learned than
they are.--_Civil Service Review._
A very handy selection of "Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs," of
which not only translations but also explanations are given. We
confidently recommend this little book.--_Printers' Register._
A very handy little book. It contains, arranged in alphabetical order,
all the most common Latin quotations with their signification, and many
which are not so well known. The author has been careful in doing his
work, and has produced a really good little book of
reference.--_Scotsman._
To those whose classical education has been wholly neglected the work
will be found to be a suitable "Vade mecum," and even to those who
learnt a good deal of Latin at school it will be found to be highly
useful.--_North British Advertiser._
It is a most admirable compilation. We can heartily recommend it as a
book of reference, and from which most genuine instruction can be
extracted.--_Glasgow Citizen._
In this handy little book the compiler has collected the Latin
quotations which occur most frequently in the serial literature of the
day, arranging them alphabetically along with translations. This is
truly a "handy referential volume," and deserving of a large
sale.--_Edinburgh Courant._
A very useful little work which will be invaluable to the reader whose
studies have not included the classic languages. In the space of 120
pages are compressed no fewer than fifteen hundred Latin words, phrases,
and proverbs, frequently met with in newspapers, political or
philosophical works, law books, etc. We have looked over the book
carefully, and tested it by searching for less usual quotations; but in
every case we have found what we sought. Each phrase is rendered as
literally as the construction of the English and Latin languages will
admit; and where necessary a paraphrase or explanation is appended in
addition.--_Irish Times._
_FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS._
The object of this little volume is to trace the Familiar Quotations so
constantly in use to their proper authorship, and to correct the errors
so frequently made by public speakers and writers. The origin of such
everyday sayings as
"He that fights and runs away,
May turn and fight another day,"
(erroneously supposed to be in Butler's "Hudibras,") and a number of
other phrases of a like character, is given, and the _exact place_ of
them in the different authors' works is recorded.
The errors constantly made in quoting are remarkable. The author of
an interesting volume, comprising many well-known passages, names
"Hudibras" as containing the lines
"They that in quarrels interpose,
Will often wipe a bloody nose."
In an essay on "Misquotations," which recently appeared in a very ably
conducted newspaper, the object of the writer being to _correct_ the
blunders constantly made, he falls into the usual mistake of quoting
Nat. Lee as writing
"When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,"
and a learned and eminent divine, a certain Dr. B., some years ago, in
the presence of a large party, obstinately insisted that
"A man convinced against his will"
was a correct passage from "Hudibras," and was only satisfied as to his
blunder by the production of Butler's immortal work. Even so
accomplished a scholar as Mr. Gladstone--_quandoque bonus dormitat
Homerus_--errs; in a recently published number of the _Nineteenth
Century_, quoting Byron's words,
"The bubbling cry
Of some strong swimmer in his agony,"
he names them as occurring in "Childe Harold," instead of in "Don Juan."
LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page ii: 2. FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS.[period
missing in original]
Page 9: Bread and butter are glad to eat.[period missing in
original]
Page 26: 445.[period missing in original] DOOR. When one door
shuts another opens.
Page 45: HONOUR. Better[original has Bettter] poor with honour
Page 62: 1099. MONEY. The abundance of money ruins
youth.[period missing in original]
Page 64: 1135. NECESSITY. Make a virtue of necessity.[period
missing in original]
Page 74: so crows the young.[period missing in original]
Index entries were changed to match the spelling and hyphenation in the
main text. Proverb numbers were corrected when necessary. The changes
are as follows:
Page 107: Age—rueful 1342[original has 1343]
Page 107: Appetite 475[original has 495]
Page 108: Birdcall[original has Bird--call]
Page 108: Birds--little 970[original has 940]
Page 108: Bone--tongue 1636[original has 1616]
Page 109: Branch--roost[original has root]
Page 109: Butter-cakes[original has Buttercakes]
Page 109: Candle-stick[original has Candlestick]
Page 110: Churchyard--May 810[original has 809]
Page 110: Cloth--coat[original has cost]
Page 110: Cold--soon 1468[original has 1469]
Page 112: Easy chair[original has Easy-chair]--frugality
Page 112: Elbow grease[original has Elbow-grease]
Page 112: Estate--trade 1647[original has 501]
Page 112: Evening--red 501[original has 1647]
Page 112: Face--painting 1061[original has 1051]
Page 112: Fast-day[original has Fast day]
Page 112: Fault--woo[original has woe]
Page 112: Feathers--fine 563[original has 535]
Page 113: Fish--cat[original has eat]
Page 113: Fish--small--venture 1700[original has 1458]
Page 113: Fish--small 1458[original has 1700]
Page 113: Folk--poor, pottage 1369[original has 1269]
Page 113: Forehead--mind[original has wind]
Page 114: Friday--sing[original has sup]
Page 114: Garner--dearth[original has death]
Page 114: Gate--stile[original has still]
Page 114: Gentleman--coat[original has cost]
Page 115: Groat a year[original has a-year]
Page 115: Hawk--hand-saw[original has handsaw]
Page 115: Heart sick[original has Heart-sick]
Page 115: Horse-manger[original has Horse--manger]
Page 116: House--well-ordered[original has well ordered]
Page 116: the section header I" has been added
Page 116: Ill--doing[original has Ill-doing]
Page 116: Ill fortune[original has Ill-fortune]
Page 116: Ill wed[original has Ill-wed]
Page 117: Ladder--crosses 359[original has 912]
Page 117: Laugh--hearts ache[original has heartache]
Page 117: Law breakers[original has Law-breakers]
Page 117: Life--end[original has Life's end]
Page 117: Lion, dead--dog 986[original has 987]
Page 118: Love, subjects'[original has subject's]
Page 119: Master's--wine[original has Master's wine]
Page 119: May--hot 810[original has 809]
Page 119: Mice--cat's[original has cat] away
Page 119: Morning--grey[original has gray]
Page 119: Mote--self love[original has self-love]
Page 119: Muck[original has Much]--riches
Page 119: Night--stumble[original has slumber]
Page 119: No--woman's 1868[original has 1861]
Page 119: Noland[original has No-land]--title
Page 120: Old block[original has clock]
Page 120: Ounce--mischief 1086[original has 1686]
Page 120: Ox--drink 450[original has 456]
Page 120: Pater-noster[original has Paternoster]--churches
Page 122: Ribs--birchen twigs[original has birchen-twigs]
Page 122: Seven--[original has comma]rise at
Page 122: Shave--hand-saw[original has handsaw]
Page 123: Silver lining--cloud[original has clouds]
Page 123: Soberness--conceals[original has concealed]
Page 123: Spain--wine 450[original has 456]
Page 123: Spending--bung-hole[original has bunghole]
Page 124: Story--re-telling[original has retelling]
Page 124: Sun shines[original has Sunshine]--moon
Page 124: Tar--ship[original has ships]
Page 124: Tenants--ill[original has bad]
Page 124: Thief--receiver 1340[original has 1341]
Page 124: Thief--receivers 1341[original has 1340]
Page 124: Thistles--harvest 752[original has 732]
Page 125: Trough--own 1480[original has 1478]
Page 125: Use--nature 1692[original has 373]
Page 126: Will--women[original has Will, woman's]
Page 126: Wind--words 1838[original has 1000]
Page 126: Wisdom--husband[original has harbour]