English Usage - chaise longue, chaise lounge - English editing.

Chaise longue comes from French, literally ‘a long chair’, with longue being the feminine form of the French adjective long. Since it has a very un-English spelling and pronunciation, it has been transformed by folk etymology into the logical chaise lounge in the US, where it is the accepted and dominant form.
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English Usage - Cervical - English editing.

Cervical means ‘relating to the cervix’ (the neck of the womb). With the advent of cervical screening and cervical smears the word has become part of general language. Its pronunciation in general use tends to be /ser-vi-k’I/, and in medical circles and the US /suh-vy-K’I/.
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English Usage - censure, censor - English editing.

Censure and censor, although quite different in meaning, are frequently confused. To censure means ‘to express severe disapproval of’ (the country was censured for human rights abuses), while to censor means ‘to examine (a book, film, etc.) and suppress unacceptable parts of it’: the letters she received were censored. Avoid writing censure when you mean censor, as in the incorrect the film was censured.
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English Usage - Celtic - English editing.

Celt and Celtic can be pronounced with the first letter c sounding like either k- or s-, but the normal pronunciation is what a k-, except in the name of the Glaswegian football club.
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English Usage - Caucasian - English editing.

In the racial classification developed by Blumenbach and others in the 19th century. Caucasian (or Caucasoid) included peoples whose skin colour ranged from light (in northern Europe) to dark (in parts of North Africa and India). Although the classification is outdated and the categories are now not generally accepted as scientific , the term Caucasian has acquired a more restricted meaning. It is now used, especially in the US, as a synonym for ‘white or of European origin’, as in the police are looking for a Caucasian male in his forties.
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English Usage - Caribbean - English editing.

The word Caribbean can be pronounced in two different ways. The first, which is more common in British English, puts the stress on the -be-, while the second, heard in the US and the Caribbean itself, stresses the -rib-.
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English Usage - candelabrum - English editing.

If we stick religiously to the Latin forms, the correct singular is candelabrum and the correct plural is candelabra. But candelabra has taken on a new life as the more common singular form, with its own plural candelabras.
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