needless and irrelevant action is not supererogation. The word is not
a natural one, at best.

_Sure_ for _Surely_. "They will come, sure." Slang.

_Survive_ for _Live_, or _Persist_. Survival is an outliving, or
outlasting of something else. "The custom survives" is wrong, but a
custom may survive its utility. Survive is a transitive verb.

_Sustain_ for _Incur_. "He sustained an injury." "He sustained a
broken neck." That means that although his neck was broken he did not
yield to the mischance.

_Talented_ for _Gifted_. These are both past participles, but there
was once the verb to gift, whereas there was never the verb "to
talent." If Nature did not talent a person the person is not talented.

_Tantamount_ for _Equivalent_. "Apology is tantamount to confession."
Let this ugly word alone; it is not only illegitimate, but ludicrously
suggests catamount.

_Tasty_ for _Tasteful_. Vulgar.

_Tear Down_ for _Pull Down_. "The house was torn down." This is an
indigenous solecism; they do not say so in England.

_Than Whom_. See _Whom_.

_The_. A little word that is terribly overworked. It is needlessly
affixed to names of most diseases: "the cholera," "the smallpox," "the