words.

_Hung_ for _Hanged_. A bell, or a curtain, is hung, but a man is
hanged. Hung is the junior form of the participle, and is now used for
everything but man. Perhaps it is our reverence for the custom of
hanging men that sacredly preserves the elder form--as some, even, of
the most zealous American spelling reformers still respect the u in
Saviour.

_Hurry_ for _Haste_ and _Hasten_. To hurry is to hasten in a more or
less disorderly manner. Hurry is misused, also, in another sense:
"There is no hurry"--meaning, There is no reason for haste.

_Hurt_ for _Harm_. "It does no hurt." To be hurt is to feel pain, but
one may be harmed without knowing it. To spank a child, or flout a
fool, hurts without harming.

_Idea_ for _Thought_, _Purpose_, _Expectation_, etc. "I had no idea
that it was so cold." "When he went abroad it was with no idea of
remaining."

_Identified with_. "He is closely identified with the temperance
movement." Say, connected.

_Ilk_ for _Kind_. "Men of that ilk." This Scotch word has a narrowly
limited and specific meaning. It relates to an ancestral estate having
the same name as the person spoken of. Macdonald of that ilk means,
Macdonald of Macdonald. The phrase quoted above is without meaning.

_Illy_ for _Ill_. There is no such word as illy, for ill itself is an