The use of fetch is more common among English writers than with us.  In fact, many speakers and writers in America rarely use the word.

Carry is a more general term, and means to convey, without thought of the direction.

Character, Reputation

These words are often confounded.  “Character,” says Abbott, “is what a person is; reputation is what he is supposed to be.  Character is in himself,
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reputation is in the minds of others.  Character is injured by temptations and by wrong-doing; reputation by slanders and libels.  Character endures throughout defamation in every form, but perishes where there is a voluntary transgression; reputation may last through numerous transgressions, but be destroyed by a single, and even an unfounded, accusation or aspersion.”

Farther, Further

Although these words are often used interchangeably even by good writers, yet a finer taste and a keener power of discrimination is shown in the use of farther when referring to literal distance, and of further in reference to quantity or degree; as, “Each day’s journey removes them farther from home,” “He concluded his speech by remarking that he had nothing further to say.”  Farther is the comparative of far; further is the comparative of forth.

Fault, Defect

Speakers and writers often fail to discriminate in the use of these words.  A defect implies a deficiency, a lack, a falling short, while a fault signifies that there is something wrong.

“Men still had faults, and men will have them still,
He that hath none, and lives as angels do
Must be an angel.”
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“It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments.”

Few, Little

These words and their comparatives, fewer, less, are often confounded.  Few relates to number, or to what may be counted; little refers to quantity, or to what may be measured.  A man may have few books and little money; he may have fewer friends and less influence than his neighbor.  But do not say “The man has less friends than his neighbor.”

Each other, One another

While some excellent authorities use these expressions interchangeably, most grammarians and authors employ each other in referring to two persons or things, and one another when more than two are considered; as, “Both contestants speak kindly of each other.”  “Gentlemen are always polite to one another.”

Those who prefer to have wide latitude in speech will be glad to know that Murray, in one of the rules in his grammar, says, “Two negatives in English destroy one another.”

Shakespeare says, “It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.  I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of
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