WILKINS, MARY E., 264, 285.
Will and shall. See Shall and will.
Willy-nilly, 4.

Wire, for telegram or telegraph, 17.
With, wrongly used, 69.
Withal, 9.

With difficulty, preferable to diffi-
cultly, 22.

Without precedent, preferable to
unprecedentedly, 22.

Without rebuke, preferable to unre-
bukedly, 22.

Womanish, Womanly, distinguished,

39.

Word, Verbal, 99.

Wordiness, fatal in persuasion, 395.
Words. fastidiousness in the use of,
3; in present use, 8; long dis-
used sometimes recalled to life,
9; in present use in poetry but
obsolete in prose, 9; obsolete for
one kind of prose but not for
another, 9; not yet in present use,
10; in national use, 11; in British
and American use, 13-15; foreign,
15-16; in reputable use, 16; not
in reputable use, 17; uneuphonious,
21; obsolete, 25; fashion in, 26,
36; new. 27; of foreign origin, 27;
borrowed, 28-30; of low origin, 32;
new formations of, 33; counsel con-
cerning choice of, 35; similar in
sound or in sense, 37-42; used in
a foreign sense, 43; omission of
those, which are necessary to con-
struction, 70 choice of, 74-144:
overworked, 75; that require defi-
nition, 94-96; of Anglo-Saxon and
of Latin origin, 96-102; "lower
classes cannot perform highest
work, 97; bookish, 108; of which
the sound suggests the sense, 112;
at once literal and figurative, 115;
metaphors embodied in single,
123; repeated, 134; in two senses,
137; two, in same sense, 137;
number of, 145-176: too few, 146-
148, too many, 150-168; arrange-
ment of, 177-230: important in

emphatic places, 184; emphasis
on unimportant, 198; drawback
to use of, in description, 249; tell
a story better than pictures, 250;
single descriptive, 268-270; that
suggest motion, 271; not subjects
for argument, 328; question-beg-
ging, 345. See Arrangement, Bar-
barisms, Choice of words, Impropri-
eties, Number of words, Solecisms.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 97, 101,
107, 110, 117, 129, 163, 164, 165,
170, 197, 251, 255, 259, 269.
Work, Travel, 99.
Works, 94.

Would, follows same rules as will,
63; used to signify habitual action,
63; used to express a wish, 63;
examples of incorrect use, 63. See
Shall and will.
Would God, 6.
Would rather, 5.
WRIGHT, THOMAS, 351
Write, how Franklin and Stevenson
learned to, 78-81.

Writer, a, first duty of, to be natural,

113; not persuasive when think-
ing of his style, 398.
Writer, the present, for I, 103.
Writing, grammatical purity a requi-
site of good, 1; Macaulay's rule
of, 11; inaccuracies excusable in
conversation not excusable in, 48.
Writing a subject to the dregs,