_Juvenile_ for _Child_. This needless use of the adjective for the
noun is probably supposed to be humorous, like "canine" for dog,
"optic" for eye, "anatomy" for body, and the like. Happily the offense
is not very common.

_Kind of a_ for _Kind of_. "He was that kind of a man." Say that kind
of man. Man here is generic, and a genus comprises many kinds. But
there cannot be more than one kind of one thing. _Kind of_ followed by
an adjective, as, "kind of good," is almost too gross for censure.

_Landed Estate_ for _Property in Land_. Dreadful!

_Last_ and _Past_. "Last week." "The past week." Neither is accurate:
a week cannot be the last if another is already begun; and all weeks
except this one are past. Here two wrongs seem to make a right: we can
say the week last past. But will we? I trow not.

_Later on_. On is redundant; say, later.

_Laundry_. Meaning a place where clothing is washed, this word cannot
mean, also, clothing sent there to be washed.

_Lay_ (to place) for _Lie_ (to recline). "The ship lays on her side."
A more common error is made in the past tense, as, "He laid down on
the grass." The confusion comes of the identity of a present tense of
the transitive verb to lay and the past tense of the intransitive verb
to lie.

_Leading Question_. A leading question is not necessarily an important