Write It Right: Apt for Likely

“Apt for Likely. ‘One is apt to be mistaken.’ Apt means facile, felicitous, ready, and the like; but even the dictionary-makers cannot persuade a person of discriminating taste to accept it as a synonymous with likely.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.