CONTENTS

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Some Words ending in -able 9
Some Words ending in -ible 11
Some Words ending in -ise or -ize 12
Some Alternative or Difficult Spellings, arranged in alphabetical order 15
Some Words ending in -ment 24
Hyphened and non-hyphened Words 25
Doubling Consonants with Suffixes 29
Formation of Plurals in Words of Foreign Origin 31
Errata, Erratum 33
Plurals of Nouns ending in -o 34
Foreign Words and Phrases, when to be set in Roman and when in Italic 35
Spellings of Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century Writers 38
Phonetic Spellings 38
A or An 39
O and Oh 39
Nor and Or 40
Vowel-ligatures (Æ and Œ) 41
Contractions 41
Poetry: Words ending in -ed, -èd, &c. 45
Capital Letters 46
Lower-case Initials 47
Small Capitals 47
Special Signs or Symbols 48
Spacing 49
Italic Type 50
References to Authorities 52
Division of Words—English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish 53
Punctuation 55
Figures and Numerals 68
Appendix I } 71
Possessive Case of Proper Names
By Sir J. A. H. Murray
Appendix II } 73
Works in the French Language
Appendix III } 88
Works in the German Language
Appendix IV } 95
Division of Latin Words
By Prof. Robinson Ellis
Appendix V } 97
Division of Greek Words
By Mr. H. Stuart Jones
Marks used in the Correction of Proofs 98
Some English Names of Types 100
GENERAL INDEX 103
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