If
the new conditions, which are not of our seeking, prove agreeable, it
is only after the sense of disappointment has vanished.
Allude to, Refer to, Mention
The word allude is often incorrectly used. Allusion is the by-play of
language. It means to hint at by remote suggestions, to speak of
figuratively or sportively.
Whatever is directly mentioned, or spoken of, or described, cannot be
said to be alluded to. The terms
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differ in degree, the first being the weakest. An allusion is an
indirect reference.
Among the rest
"Mary sat on the beach among the rest." Say "with the rest."
Peruse
This is one of those high-sounding terms too often employed when read
would be much better.
Emigrants, Immigrants
These words are sometimes confounded. "Did you see the emigrants on
the 'Indiana,' which arrived this morning?" "Did the immigrants go
directly to Italy?" Exchange the italicized words in the two sentences
and they will be correctly used.
Somewheres
The terminal s should be omitted in such words as anywheres,
somewheres, nowheres, anyways, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts.
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