Enquire within upon everything by Robert Kemp Philp

162. Other Errors

arise from the substitution of sounds similar to the words which should be employed; that is, spurious words instead of genuine ones. Thus, some people say "renumerative," when they mean "remunerative." A nurse, recommending her mistress to have a _perambulator_ for her child, advised her to purchase a _preamputator_!