"_Singular" and "Unique_."--The word _singular_, originally applied to
that of which there is no other, gradually came to mean extraordinary
only, and "rather singular," "very singular indeed," and such like
phrases, ceased to shock the ear. To supply the vacancy occasioned by
this corruption, the word _unique_ was introduced; which, I am
horror-struck to see, is beginning to follow its predecessor. The
Vauxhall bills lately declared Vauxhall to be the "most _unique_ place
of amusement in the world." Can anything be done to check this ill-fated
word in its career? and, if not, what must we look to for a successor?