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Bechtel, John Hendricks, 1841-

"Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking"


Awkward Construction, 172.
Clearness, 172.
"Is building," 173.
"Of" redundant, 169.
Omit the Possessive, 170.
Place of, 171.
Party, Person, 93.
Patron, Customer, 93.
Peas, Pease, 149.
Pell-mell, 155.
Pennies, Pence, 149.
Per, 93.
Peradventure, Perchance, 93.
Performers, 93.
Period, Point, 94.
Perpetually, Continually, 52.
Person, Party, 93.
Perspire, Sweat, 86.
Persuade, Advise, 52.
Peruse, 78.
Pet Words, 12.
Phenomena, Data, Effluvia, 144, 204.
Place of Participles, 171.
Plead, Pleaded, 94.
Plenty, Plentiful, 95.
Plural Compounds, 147.
Plural Nouns, 125.
Pocket-handkerchief, 188.
Poet, Poetess, 73.
Poetic Terms, 9.
Poetical Construction, 201.
Point, Period, 94.
Politics, Acoustics, Ethics, 143.
Portion, Part, 30.
Position of Correlatives, 164.
Position of Preposition, 178.
Possessive Case, 124.
After of, 127.
Double possessives, 126.
Nouns, Singular, 125.
" Plural, 125.
" in apposition, 126.
Pronouns, 126.
Somebody else's, 127.
Postal, 31.


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