The Elements of Style


V. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY MISUSED


(Many of the words and expressions here listed are not so much bad English as bad style, the commonplaces of careless writing. As illustrated under Feature, the proper correction is likely to be not the replacement of one word or set of words by another, but the replacement of vague generality by definite statement.)




Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.