_Pair_ for _Pairs_. If a word has a good plural use each form in its
place.

_Pants_ for _Trousers_. Abbreviated from pantaloons, which are no
longer worn. Vulgar exceedingly.

_Partially_ for _Partly_. A dictionary word, to swell the book.

_Party_ for _Person_. "A party named Brown." The word, used in that
sense, has the excuse that it is a word. Otherwise it is no better
than "pants" and "gent." A person making an agreement, however, is a
party to that agreement.

_Patron_ for _Customer_.

_Pay_ for _Give_, _Make_, etc. "He pays attention." "She paid a visit
to Niagara." It is conceivable that one may owe attention or a visit
to another person, but one cannot be indebted to a place.

_Pay_. "Laziness does not pay." "It does not pay to be uncivil." This
use of the word is grossly commercial. Say, Indolence is unprofitable.
There is no advantage in incivility.

_Peek_ for _Peep_. Seldom heard in England, though common here. "I
peeked out through the curtain and saw him." That it is a variant of
peep is seen in the child's word peek-a-boo, equivalent to bo-peep.
Better use the senior word.

_Peculiar_ for _Odd_, or _Unusual_. Also sometimes used to denote
distinction, or particularity. Properly a thing is peculiar only to