Write It Right: Around for About, Round for About

“Around for About. ‘The debris of battle lay around them.’ ‘The huckster went around, crying his wares.’ Around carries the concept of circularity.

Round for About. “They stood round.” See Around.”

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