Genuine for Authentic, or Veritable. “A genuine document,” “a genuine surprise,” and the like.

Given.  “The soldier was given a rifle.”  What was given is the rifle, not the soldier.  “The house was given a coat (coating) of paint.”  Nothing can be “given” anything.

Goatee.  In this country goatee is frequently used for a tuft of beard on the point of the chin—­what is sometimes called “an imperial,” apparently because the late Emperor Napoleon III wore his beard so.  His Majesty the Goat is graciously pleased to wear his beneath the chin.

Got Married for Married.  If this is correct we should say, also, “got dead” for died; one expression is as good as the other.

Gotten for Got.  This has gone out of good use, though in such compounded words as begotten and misbegotten it persists respectably.

Graduated for Was Graduated.

Gratuitous for Unwarranted.  “A gratuitous assertion.”  Gratuitous means without cost.

Grueling.  Used chiefly by newspaper reporters; as, “He was subjected to a grueling cross-examination.”  “It was grueling weather.”  Probably a corruption of grilling.

Gubernatorial.  Eschew it; it is not English, is needless and bombastic.  Leave it to those who call a political office a “chair.”  “Gubernatorial chair” is good enough for them.  So is hanging.

Had Better for Would Better.  This is not defensible as an idiom, as those who always used it before their attention was directed to it take the trouble to point out.  It comes of such contractions as he’d for he would, I’d for I would.  These clipped words are erroneously restored as “he had,” “I had.”  So we have such monstrosities as “He had better beware,” “I had better go.”

Hail for Come.  “He hails from Chicago.”  This is sea speech, and comes from the custom of hailing passing ships.  It will not do for serious discourse.

Have Got for Have.  “I have got a good horse” directs attention rather to the act of getting than to the state of having, and represents the capture as recently completed.

Head over Heels.  A transposition of words hardly less surprising than (to the person most concerned) the mischance that it fails to describe.  What is meant is heels over head.

Healthy for Wholesome.  “A healthy climate.”  “A healthy occupation.”  Only a living thing can be healthy.

Helpmeet for Helpmate.  In Genesis Adam’s wife is called “an help meet for him,” that is, fit for him.  The ridiculous word appears to have had no other origin.

Hereafter for Henceforth.  Hereafter means at some time in the future; henceforth, always in the future.  The penitent who promises to be good hereafter commits himself to the performance of a single good act, not to a course of good conduct.