Better English [antikvár]

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITIONIn this edition a number of corrections and a few additions have been made. I am grateful to reviewers and correspondents who have pointed out errors and omissions ; in particular, to Studienrat Eitzen of Hamburg, who put me right on several matters of detail and suggested many additional entries in the Index, the most important of which I have now included, and to Mr G. V. Carey, the author of that excellent book Mind the Stop, who gently and courteously chided me on certain points of punctuation. I may add that certain omissions were deliberate, the words or constructions concerned having already been dealt with in my previous book Good English: How to write It.G. H. V.NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITIONI have to thank several readers for pointing out misprints and errors in the earlier editions. In this edition all the misprints have (I hope) been corrected, and I have tried to put right what my generous critics have, with justice, found to be wrong. I cannot do better than repeat my final remark in the Note to the Fourth Edition of Good English, that ' their kindly interest has encouraged and their erudition has challenged