RIGHT HERE. The expressions "right here" and "right there" are Americanisms. Correctly, "just here" and "just there."
ROLLING. The use of this participial adjective in the sense of undulating is said to be an Americanism. Whether an Americanism or not, it would seem to be quite unobjectionable.
RUBBERS. This word, in common with _gums_ and _arctics_, is often, in defiance of good taste, used for _overshoes_.
SABBATH. This term was first used in English for Sunday, or Lord's day, by the Puritans. Nowadays it is little used in this sense. The word to use is _Sunday_.
SARCASM. Bain says that _sarcasm_ is vituperation softened in the outward expression by the arts and figures of disguise--epigram, innuendo, irony--and embellished with the figures of illustration. Crabb says that _sarcasm_ is the indulgence only of personal resentment, and is never justifiable.
SATIRE. The holding up to ridicule of the follies and weaknesses of mankind, by way of rebuke, is called _satire_. Satire is general rather than individual, its object being the reformation of abuses. A _lampoon_, which has been defined as a _personal satire_, attacks the individual rather than his fault, and is intended to injure rather than to reform.
Said Sheridan: "Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties than by printing them."
SAW. The imperfect tense of the verb _to see_ is carelessly used by good writers and speakers when they should use the perfect; thus, "I never _saw_ anything like it before," when the meaning intended is, "I _have_ never [in all my life] _seen_ anything like it before [until now]." We say properly, "I never _saw_ anything like it _when I was in Paris_"; but, when the period of time referred to extends to the time when the statement is made, it must be _have seen_. Like mistakes are made in the use of other verbs, but they are hardly as common; yet we often hear such expressions as, "I _was_ never in Philadelphia," "I never _went_ to the theatre in my life," instead of _have been_ in Philadelphia, and _have gone_ to the theatre.
SECTION. The use of this word for region, neighborhood, vicinity, part (of the town or country), is said to be a Westernism. A _section_ is a division of the public lands containing six hundred and forty acres.