_Smart_ for _Bright_, or _Able_. An Americanism that is dying out. But
"smart" has recently come into use for fashionable, which is almost as
bad.

_Snap_ for _Period_ (of time) or _Spell_. "A cold snap." This is a
word of incomprehensible origin in that sense; we can know only that
its parents were not respectable. "Spell" is itself not very
well-born.

_So--as_. See _As--as_.

_So_ for _True_. "If you see it in the Daily Livercomplaint it is so."
"Is that so?" Colloquial and worse.

_Solemnize_. This word rightly means to make solemn, not to perform,
or celebrate, ceremoniously something already solemn, as a marriage,
or a mass. We have no exact synonym, but this explains, rather than
justifies, its use.

_Some_ for _Somewhat_. "He was hurt some."

_Soon_ for _Willingly_. "I would as soon go as stay." "That soldier
would sooner eat than fight." Say, rather eat.

_Space_ for _Period_. "A long space of time." Space is so different a
thing from time that the two do not go well together.

_Spend_ for _Pass_. "We shall spend the summer in Europe." Spend
denotes a voluntary relinquishment, but time goes from us against our
will.