_Both alike_. "They are both alike." Say, they are alike. One of them
could not be alike.

_Brainy_. Pure slang, and singularly disagreeable.

_Bug_ for _Beetle_, or for anything. Do not use it.

_Business_ for _Right_. "He has no business to go there."

_Build_ for _Make_. "Build a fire." "Build a canal." Even "build a
tunnel" is not unknown, and probably if the wood-chuck is skilled in
the American tongue he speaks of building a hole.

_But_. By many writers this word (in the sense of except) is regarded
as a preposition, to be followed by the objective case: "All went but
him." It is not a preposition and may take either the nominative or
objective case, to agree with the subject or the object of the verb.
All went but he. The natives killed all but him.

_But what_. "I did not know but what he was an enemy." Omit what. If
condemnation of this dreadful locution seem needless bear the matter
in mind in your reading and you will soon be of a different opinion.

_By_ for _Of_. "A man by the name of Brown." Say, of the name. Better
than either form is: a man named Brown.

_Calculated_ for _Likely_. "The bad weather is calculated to produce
sickness." Calculated implies calculation, design.