Part 3 (1/2)

=Cupola=--ku'po-la, not ku-po-lo'.

D.

=Dahlia=--dal'ya or dal'-ya, not dal'ya.

=Dare not=, not da.r.s.e'nt.

=Data=--da'ta, not dat'a, is the plural of datum (da'tum).

=Debris=--da-bre', not de'bris nor da'bre.

Rubbish, ruins.

=Decade=--dek'ade, not de'kade nor de-kade'. Ten in number.

=Defalcate=--de-fal'kate, not de-fawl'kate.

=Defalcation=--de-fal-ka'shun not de-fawl-ka'shun.

Worcester gives def-al-ka'shun. No such word as _defalcater_ is seen.

=Deficit=--def'i-sit, not de-fi'sit nor de-fis'sit. A deficiency.

=Delusion=, not _illusion_, when deception occurs from want of knowledge of the world, ignorance of business or trade, or from lack of ac.u.men generally. Illusions are deceptions arising from a temporarily or permanently disordered imagination, or from phenomena occurring in nature: thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, of dreams, and of optical illusions. The mirage of the desert and the fata Morgana are instances of the latter.

=Demonstrative=--de-mon'stra-tive, not dem'on-stra-tive.

=Demonstrator=--dem'on-stra-tor, not de-mon'stra-tor.

Worcester allows the latter.

=Depot=--de-po' or de'po, not da'po, nor dep'po. Worcester sanctions de-po' only. I once had a friend, deceased now, of course, who called it de-pot'.

=Dereliction=--der-e-lik'shun, not der-e-lek'shun. A forsaking, abandonment.

=Deshabille=--des-a-bil', } =Dishabille=--dis-a-bil', } not des'ha-beel nor dis'ha-beel. The French is deshabille, p.r.o.nounced about like da-za-be-ya, without any particular accent. Some persons, in their vain efforts to get the peculiar liquid sound of the double l, sometimes used, distort the word terribly, p.r.o.nouncing it even as broad as dis-ha-beel'yuh.

=Desideratum=--de-sid-e-ra'tum, not de-sid-er-at'um; plural, de-sid-er-a'ta. Something particularly desired.

=Desperado=--des-per-a'do, not des-per-a'do.

=Dessert=--dez-zert', not dez'zert, nor des'sert: _dessert-spoon_ (dez-zert'-spoon).

=Die.= One dies _of_ a disease, not with it.

=Differ.= One differs with a person in opinion; one person or thing differs _from_ another in some quality.

=Disappointed.= One is disappointed _of_ a thing not obtained and _in_ a thing obtained. ”He will be disappointed of his expectations.”

=Discourse=--dis-kors', not dis'kors.