_Love_ for _Like_. "I love to travel." "I love apples." Keep the
stronger word for a stronger feeling.

_Lunch_ for _Luncheon_. But do not use luncheon as a verb.

_Mad_ for _Angry_. An Americanism of lessening prevalence. It is
probable that anger is a kind of madness (insanity), but that is not
what the misusers of the word mad mean to affirm.

_Maintain_ for _Contend_. "The senator maintained that the tariff was
iniquitous." He maintained it only if he proved it.

_Majority_ for _Plurality_. Concerning votes cast in an election, a
majority is more than half the total; a plurality is the excess of one
candidate's votes over another's. Commonly the votes compared are
those for the successful candidate and those for his most nearly
successful competitor.

_Make_ for _Earn_. "He makes fifty dollars a month by manual labor."

_Mansion_ for _Dwelling_, or _House_. Usually mere hyperbole, a
lamentable fault of our national literature. Even our presidents,
before Roosevelt, called their dwelling the Executive Mansion.

_Masculine_ for _Male_. See _Feminine_.

_Mend_ for _Repair_. "They mended the road." To mend is to repair, but
to repair is not always to mend. A stocking is mended, a road
repaired.