_Square_ for _Block_. "He lives three squares away." A city block is
seldom square.

_Squirt_ for _Spurt_. Absurd.

_Stand_ and _Stand for_ for _Endure_. "The patient stands pain well."
"He would not stand for misrepresentation."

_Standpoint_ for _Point of View_, or _Viewpoint_.

_State_ for _Say_. "He stated that he came from Chicago." "It is
stated that the president is angry." We state a proposition, or a
principle, but say that we are well. And we say our prayers--some of
us.

_Still Continue_. "The rain still continues." Omit still; it is
contained in the other word.

_Stock_. "I take no stock in it." Disagreeably commercial. Say, I have
no faith in it. Many such metaphorical expressions were
unobjectionable, even pleasing, in the mouth of him who first used
them, but by constant repetition by others have become mere slang,
with all the offensiveness of plagiarism. The prime objectionableness
of slang is its hideous lack of originality. Until mouth-worn it is
not slang.

_Stop_ for _Stay_. "Prayer will not stop the ravages of cholera." Stop
is frequently misused for stay in another sense of the latter word:
"He is stopping at the hotel." Stopping is not a continuing act; one