In an attempt to get an effective method of dealing with the common errors in English speech the teachers in the elementary school were asked to observe with care for a given period the mistakes in the use of English which their pupils made in conversations on the playground, in the schoolroom, and in recitation. The teachers then listed these errors and reported. The lists of this first report were collated and classified. When they had been classified the fact which stood out most clearly was that the multitudinous errors in speech are due to the frequent repetition of a few incorrect forms. Practically all the errors reported could be classified under six heads, namely, verb errors, double negatives, mispronunciations, misuse of pronouns, adverb errors, and colloquialisms. Mispronunciations in this classification include those which may properly be called language errors, as jist for just, git for get, ketch for catch, and others of a like nature, and does not include mispronunciations due to unfamiliarity with a word. In this effort there was no attempt to deal with the fine points, the niceties of speech. Only the gross and glaring crudities of English were considered.