_Badly_ for _Bad_. "I feel badly." "He looks badly." The former
sentence implies defective nerves of sensation, the latter, imperfect
vision. Use the adjective.

_Balance_ for _Remainder_. "The balance of my time is given to
recreation." In this sense balance is a commercial word, and relates
to accounting.

_Banquet_. A good enough word in its place, but its place is the
dictionary. Say, dinner.

_Bar_ for _Bend_. "Bar sinister." There is no such thing in heraldry
as a bar sinister.

_Because_ for _For_. "I knew it was night, because it was dark." "He
will not go, because he is ill."

_Bet_ for _Betted_. The verb to bet forms its preterite regularly, as
do wet, wed, knit, quit and others that are commonly misconjugated. It
seems that we clip our short words more than we do our long.

_Body_ for _Trunk_. "The body lay here, the head there." The body is
the entire physical person (as distinguished from the soul, or mind)
and the head is a part of it. As distinguished from head, trunk may
include the limbs, but anatomically it is the torso only.

_Bogus_ for _Counterfeit_, or _False_. The word is slang; keep it out.

_Both_. This word is frequently misplaced; as, "A large mob, both of
men and women." Say, of both men and women.