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Excerpt from Handbook for Teacher and Pupil This handbook recognizes a want of busy people who have no time to hunt up authorities in special subjects, when a glimpse of just what they want will set them right. It is the small things of life that often become important, and it is in those very things that we most frequently err. The correct English given here has been used from week to week in the class room and is really of more value to the average pupil than the technical grammar which is supposed to prepare him for high school work. If these expressions are used often enough, they will gradually become a part of us, and we shall naturally fall into the habit of correct speech. They are also of value for reference when we are in doubt. Distinct and proper pronunciation of words should be a characteristic of well educated people, yet many educated people carlessly pronounce their words indistinctly and incorrectly. The list of words here given has been looked up with care and it is believed that all are the preferred pronunciation given by Webster's International Dictionary. We have also appended some useful tables in arithmetic and other items of useful information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.