The Verbalist
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01: A/An - Avocation
40:35 -
02: Bad cold - Determined
51:54 -
03: Diction - Friend
60:37 -
04: Galsome - Irritate
49:26 -
05: Is being built - Knights Templars
59:27 -
06: Lady - Number
50:36 -
07: Observe - Provoke
47:08 -
08: Punctuation - Set/Sit
55:49 -
09: Settle - Swosh
53:05 -
10: Synecdoche - Yours, &c
59:58
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Small choices in English receive close attention in Alfred Ayres's manual of usage, published in 1881. Arranged alphabetically, its short entries distinguish words that speakers and writers often confuse, explain grammatical constructions, and challenge expressions found in newspapers and everyday conversation. The opening discussion weighs the choice between a and an before a pronounced h, while another entry shows how repeating an article can make it clear whether a sentence refers to one horse or two.
Further on, Ayres examines less and fewer, like and as, and loan and lend. His comments combine practical examples with firm opinions about acceptable speech, sometimes acknowledging disagreement among grammarians. Quotations from other language writers help him set out his arguments. Readers interested in editing, word choice, or the history of English usage can study both the distinctions he makes and the standards of propriety that shaped this nineteenth-century handbook.
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- Alfred Ayres
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