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 transition, however denoting that "in whatever manner or degree what precedes is valid, what follows nevertheless stands firm."—.

hung should never be used for hanged. Beef is hung; a murderer is hanged. Compare.

hunk, to get: A vulgar phrase for "to get even" or "to retaliate upon."

hunky or hunky-dory: Slang terms that should not be used for "all right"; "safe"; or "done satisfactorily."

hurry. Compare.

  I, and me: "They had come to see my sister and I" is a common error. In this sentence "they" stands in the nominative case, and "my sister and I," being the objects of the action of the nominative "they," should be noun and pronoun in the objective case. To be correct the clause should read "my sister and me." "They have come to see my sister and me."

ice-cream, ice-water: Common English idioms sometimes condemned as incorrect. The recording usage recognizes the forms ice-cream and ice-water as correct. Inasmuch as iced means "made cold with ice; as iced milk or iced tea," it would seem that by analogy the correct phrases should be iced cream, iced water, for one would not