English Usage - bated breath - English editing.

It is a common mistake to write baited breath instead of bated breath. The first written example of the original phrase is in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and bate is a shortened version of abate.
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English Usage - basis - English editing.

It is very common for basis to be included in phrases describing how often something happens: on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, and so forth. Unless the word is really required in a technical context, e.g. inspection of the facility is carried out on the basis of a weekly rota, ordinary time adverbs such as weekly or daily, or a phrase such as every week can easily and more economically be used instead: I do it weekly.
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English Usage - barely - English editing.

Barely, like scarcely, should normally be followed by when, not than, to introduce a subsequent clause; he had barely reached the door when he collapsed.
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English Usage - barbecue - English editing.

The spelling barbeque with -que at the end comes from combining the standard spelling barbecue with the abbreviation Bar-B-Q, and from spelling as you speak. Though listed as an alternative in some dictionaries, barbeque is the best avoided.
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English Usage - Bantu - English editing.

The word Bantu became a strongly offensive term under the old apartheid regime in South Africa, especially when used to refer to a single individual. In standard current use in South Africa the term black or African is used as a collective or non-specific term for African peoples. The term Bantu has, however, continued to be accepted as a neutral ‘scientific’ term outside South Africa to refer to the group of languages and their speakers collectively.
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English Usage - balk, baulk - English proofreading.

However this verb is spelled, it is usually pronounced so that you can hear the letter I (/bawlk/). Some older British speakers may pronounce it without the I. The spelling without u is now the more common one in all varieties of English.
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English Usage - bacterium - English editing.

Bacteria is the plural form, from Latin, of bacterium. Like any other plural it should be used with the plural form of the verb: the bacteria causing salmonella are killed by thorough cooking, not the bacteria causing salmonella is killed by through cooking. However, general unfamiliarity with the form bacterium means that bacteria is often mistakenly treated as a singular form, as in the second example above.
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