Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults

Quit for Cease, Stop.  “Jones promises to quit drinking.”  In another sense, too, the word is commonly misused, as, “He has quit the town.”  Say, quitted.

Quite.  “She is quite charming.”  If it is meant that she is entirely charming this is right, but usually the meaning intended to be conveyed is less than that—­that she is rather, or somewhat, charming.