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Phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar
A solecism is a phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar. The term is often used in the context of linguistic prescription; it also occurs descriptively
Solecism
Literary form of the Latin language
solecism has words that are inconsistent in themselves, while a barbarism is made in individual words”. Meanwhile, Quintilianus argued that solecism can
Classical_Latin
Central Semitic language
Bedouin speech—positioning itself against laḥnu‿l-ʿāmmah (لَحْن العامة), the solecism it viewed as defective. In the second half of the 19th century, the British
Arabic
would sound in French. An entirely English pronunciation is regarded as a solecism. Some of the entries were never "good French", in the sense of being grammatical
Glossary of French words and expressions in English
Glossary_of_French_words_and_expressions_in_English
27 BC–476/1453 AD state and civilization
educated. Graffiti and low-quality inscriptions with misspellings and solecisms indicate casual literacy among non-elites. The Romans had an extensive
Roman_Empire
Linguistic deviation
language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is an error in syntax. The label was originally applied to mixing Ancient
Barbarism_(linguistics)
Christian religious honorific style
prefix with the surname alone, e.g. "The Reverend Smith", is incorrect (a solecism) in formal usage. The style normally precedes titles such as Canon or Doctor
The_Reverend
Prenatal organism between the embryonic state and birth
the birth of a newborn. The word fetus (plural fetuses or rarely, the solecism feti) comes from Latin fētus 'offspring, bringing forth, hatching of young'
Fetus
Russian and American novelist (1899–1977)
but I know better the other kind. He never sinks to the depths of my solecisms, but neither does he scale my verbal peaks." Nabokov translated many of
Vladimir_Nabokov
1998 video game
team. It was designed by Jim Gindin, as part of his one-man company, Solecismic Software, founded in Redmond, Washington on February 20, 1998. It has
Front_Office_Football
British politician (1912–1998)
as good as to say that he is king of his kingdom. We have perpetrated a solecism in the title we are proposing to attach to our Sovereign and we have done
Enoch_Powell
Correct pronunciation of a language
term for this subject is orthology, and in this sense its opposite is solecism. The study of orthoepeia by the Greek sophists of the 5th century BCE,
Orthoepy
Social cards used by 18th–20th-century upper classes
respectively) but states the inclusion of a telephone or fax number would be "a solecism" (blunder). According to Debrett's Handbook in 2016, a gentleman's card
Visiting_card
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874–1880)
Disraeli, then just 23, did not move in high society, as the numerous solecisms in his book made obvious. Reviewers were sharply critical on these grounds
Benjamin_Disraeli
Malay-language system of styles, titles and honorifics
styled the Honourable or the Right Honourable, although technically it is a solecism to style the prime minister or heads of courts Right Honourable as they
Malay_styles_and_titles
Expression considered non-standard, characteristic of uneducated speech or writing
English grammar Euphemism Grotesque body Heteroglossia Linguistic purism Solecism Vernacular Johannes Tromp, The Assumption of Moses: A Critical Edition
Vulgarism
Novel by Benjamin Disraeli
in London society. Contemporary reviewers, suspicious of the numerous solecisms contained within the text, eventually identified the young Disraeli (who
Vivian_Grey
Unconstitutional American political concept
is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connection with
Secession in the United States
Secession_in_the_United_States
Fish-oriented eating utensil
2023-10-16. A Member of the Aristocracy (1898). Manners and Rules of Good Society: Or, Solecisms to be Avoided. F. Warne. Retrieved 2023-10-16. v t e
Fish_fork
French politician (1928–2025)
placing them in a special "sidatorium". "Sidaïque" is Le Pen's pejorative solecism for "person infected with AIDS" (the more usual French term is "séropositif"
Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
Latin work of fiction attributed to Petronius
are provided with informal table talk that abounds in vulgarisms and solecisms which gives insight into the unknown Roman proletariat. Chapter 41, the
Satyricon
1984:47–65) p. 62 note 50. "The Monk's Prologue", 4; Madrian is another solecism of the Host's: rather than a common corruption of the intended Mathurin
Maturinus
English grammatical construction
divided English speakers since the split infinitive was declared to be a solecism in the 19th century: raise the subject of English usage in any conversation
Split_infinitive
Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
about one's native language Barbarism (linguistics) – Linguistic deviation Solecism – Phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar Legalese – English as used
Linguistic_prescription
of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch-phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames, Vulgarisms (8th ed.). New York, New York:
Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States
Glossary_of_early_twentieth_century_slang_in_the_United_States
Ancient Cilician city
region. While largely discredited, the idea was preserved in the word solecism, derived from σόλοικος (sóloikos, "speaking incorrectly"), as since the
Soli_(Cilicia)
2013 novel by Dan Brown
elaborated: "Inferno is also dreadful, abounding in malapropisms and solecisms, leaden restatements of the obvious and naive disinformation about the
Inferno_(Brown_novel)
Fashions and trends in British culture during the Victorian era
(1819–1861), until her own death." Manners and Rules of Good Society, or, Solecisms to be Avoided (London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1887) gives clear instructions
Victorian_fashion
Vocabulary of an informal register
slang and unconventional English ; colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have
Slang
1878 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
sailor with whom she is in love, because "at every step, he would commit solecisms that society would never pardon." The ballad was meant to be sung between
H.M.S._Pinafore
When words are replaced by their rhymes
of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames and vulgarisms (8th ed.). New York: Macmillan
Rhyming_slang
Figures of speech
"incorrect" according to traditional grammatical rules. However, such solecisms are sometimes not errors but intentional constructions in which the rules
Zeugma_and_syllepsis
British novelist and newspaper columnist (1929–2009)
the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of such solecisms as "potatoe's" and "pound's of apple's and orange's" in greengrocers'
Keith_Waterhouse
Topics referred to by the same term
city in Cilicia, later renamed Pompeiopolis, and the source of the word solecism Soli, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran Soli (region), a 10th-century
Soli
1954 novel by Edward Abbey
In 1984 Abbey was quoted by William Plummer in "Edward Abbey's Desert Solecisms" as saying that Jonathan Troy "was a disgusting novel, fortunately long
Jonathan_Troy
Irish scientist, pioneer of X-ray crystallography in biology (1901–1971)
by using his knowledge of the area but said, "I committed the frightful solecism of not knowing which was port and which side was starboard". Raised as
J._D._Bernal
Nintendo 64 Front Office Football 2001 November 1, 2000 Microsoft Windows Solecismic Software Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 November 6, 2000 Microsoft Windows
List of Electronic Arts games: 2000–2009
List_of_Electronic_Arts_games:_2000–2009
Irish musician and folk music collector
being adapted to the tune, the tune was too often adapted to the words, a solecism which could never have happened had the reputation of the writer not been
Edward_Bunting
Interpolated phrase in verses 5:7–8 of 1 John
explain the masculine grammar, else the earthly witnesses alone would be a solecism. Frederick Nolan, in his 1815 book, An Inquiry into the Integrity of the
Johannine_Comma
1993 book by Gordon S. Wood
regarding the very notion of an expansive "[the] United States" and the solecism imperium-in-imperio, sovereignty-within-sovereignty. James Madison and
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The_Radicalism_of_the_American_Revolution
Arts society at Harvard University
in LaRose's words, as it "ought to have been." Thus the architectural solecism of the two orders of the porch—the Doric columns and Ionic pilasters—was
Signet_Society
Soviet politician
government-in-waiting, "an idea so preposterous that it was either the solecism of an NKGB simpleton, or, more likely, a joke between Stalin and Beria
Mikhail_Kaganovich
Canadian university in Halifax, Nova Scotia
the purity of the language, undebased by local or national accents and solecisms, is undeniably to be found in the Kingdom of England. These ideas continued
University_of_King's_College
19th and 20th century dispute about popular and learned language varieties of Greek
Philologist, Schoolmaster, Metrician and Poet. After pointing out errors and solecisms in Soutsos' own language, Asopios went on to defend Korais' general 'simplifying'
Greek_language_question
Table knife used for eating fish
Member of the Aristocracy (1898). Manners and Rules of Good Society: Or, Solecisms to be Avoided. F. Warne. Retrieved 2023-10-16. Cool, H.E.M. (2009). "Fish
Fish_knife
Linguistic feature
American Vernacular English. The feature is widely stigmatized as being a solecism. False title Null morpheme PRO (linguistics) Zero (linguistics) Zero-marking
Zero-marking_in_English
body like the strongest bull, in impetuosity like the fiercest lion." Solecism – ignorantly misusing tenses, cases, and genders. Sophists – considered
Glossary_of_rhetorical_terms
1st century AD Roman grammarian
correct diction, illustrative quotations and discussed barbarisms and solecisms. An extant Ars grammatica (discovered by Jovianus Pontanus in the 15th
Remmius_Palaemon
New Testament works traditionally attributed to John the Apostle or to a Johannine circle
Revelation's Greek exhibits Semitic interference, abrupt shifts, and deliberate solecisms that distinguish it from the Gospel and Letters while serving its visionary
Johannine_literature
as errors, providing insight into how Latin was actually spoken. The solecisms and non-Classical usages occasionally found in Late Latin texts also shed
History_of_Latin
Psychological term
control of the tact, it is said to be solecistically extended. Malapropisms, solecism and catachresis are examples of this. Skinner notes things like serial
Tact_(psychology)
Medieval iconography
Mercer UP. p. 155. ISBN 9780865544284. Schnapp, Jeffrey T. "Dante's Sexual Solecisms: Gender and Genre in the Commedia". In Marina S. Brownlee; Kevin Brownlee;
Bearded_Mary
he used influenced American philosopher, Everett W. Hall to create the solecism "the categorio-centric predicament" to express the impossibility of seeing
Egocentric_predicament
German composer and music theorist
Musica poetica ("Poetic composition in music"), he describes musical solecisms, ornaments, and figures, as well as formal and stylistic categories. He
Joachim_Burmeister
First published New Testament in Greek
stylistic point of view; elimination of grammatical peculiarities and solecisms from the Latin New Testament; and the effort to provide the most accurate
Novum_Instrumentum_omne
French poet
usage") over local customs. Part IV discusses errors (barbarisms and solecisms) and bad verse. Part V covers practical considerations. The Leys d'amors
Guilhem_Molinier
Public school in Hampshire, England
1951 A barrister before joining the Royal Navy; "a living reproof to the solecism of displaying emotion" Edgar Naylor Cyril Connolly The Rock Pool 1936 "and
Winchester_College_in_fiction
1998 short novel by Philibert Schogt
"rudimentary at best" , "stiff and clunky", and "riddled with ESL-ish solecisms" (while conceding that "Schogt's original Dutch prose" might be of significantly
The_Wild_Numbers
Attempts to classify the extinct Indo-European language
Tsokas, the Thracians spoke the Greek language with particular idioms, solecisms and barbarisms. Linguist Nikolaos P. Andriotes [el] considered Thracian
Classification_of_Thracian
Σολοικιστής Soloecista Soloecista A discussion of grammatical errors (solecisms). Κατάπλους ἢ Τύραννος Cataplus The Downward Journey or The Tyrant A group
List_of_works_by_Lucian
Latina-Jewish American poet and writer
ISBN 9781948579155 turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. Get Fresh LLC, 2019. ISBN 9780998935898 Solecism: poems. Virtual Artists Collective, 2013. ISBN 9780944048504, OCLC 829764410
Rosebud_Ben-Oni
Caves in Maharashtra, India
frame such as we employ for pictures. Though its employment here is a solecism, this bas- relief is one of the most interesting pieces of sculpture for
Manmodi_Caves
1937 dictionary by Eric Partridge
of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-594980-2
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Unconventional_English
Disputes over "correct" grammar and style
divided English speakers since the split infinitive was declared to be a solecism in the 19c [19th century]: raise the subject of English usage in any conversation
English_usage_controversies
1919 English contract law case
the wife to charge her husband is in the capacity of his agent, it is a solecism in reasoning to say that she derives her authority from his will, and at
Balfour_v_Balfour
Japanese record label
Teruo Nakano User Unknown CD 1996-12-10 SYUN-016 P-MODEL Sankai no Jintai Chizu (三界の人体地図) VHS 1996-12-10 SYUN-017 Tadahiko Yokogawa solecism CD 1997-10-24
SYUN
Textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by Quintilian
speaking and writing, choice of words, barbarisms, aspiration, accent, solecisms, figures of speech, foreign words, and compound words; in ch. vi, analogy
Institutio_Oratoria
among the homilies of Caesarius of Arles. The Latin epistle contains many solecisms which originated with an author who lacked proficiency with Latin and
Epistle_of_Pseudo-Titus
Australian island in the Coral Sea
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) "Solitude and Solecisms: A Willis Island Notebook" by Frank Exon, edited by Neville Exon (Imprint:
Willis_Island
Phrase
you and I" is Steven Pinker, though he still calls it a "hyper-corrected solecism". Pinker's argument, in short, is that individual elements in coordinates
Between_you_and_I
American historian
without any qualification whatever." She maintained that "whatsoever" was a solecism. Through a bequest, Marti established the Berthe M. Marti Fellowship at
Berthe_Marti
German philosopher
a collection of obsolete, rare, or malformed expressions—neologisms, solecisms, barbarisms, and other linguistic irregularities—accompanied by suggested
Rudolph_Goclenius
Social custom in Victorian Britain
of the Aristocracy (2004) [1911]. Manners and Rules of Good Society or Solecisms to be avoided (Reprint of 33rd ed.). Adamant Media Corporation. p. 159
At_Home_day
1937 poem by Gjergj Fishta
works, much less in poetry, with words of obscure meaning, archaisms, solecisms, and composite words, often constructed by him according to bovine[further
The_Highland_Lute
Style of Latin in the later Roman and early Medieval periods
Byrhtferth aimed for an elevated style, but he was frequently guilty of solecisms caused by overreaching his ability in Latin. Almost all proponents of
Hermeneutic_style
Irish-language political slogans
strict correction of Louis MacNeice. In 'Autumn Journal' he commits the solecism of translating the Gaelic words Sinn Fein as 'Ourselves Alone'. This is
Sinn_Féin_(slogan)
1994 studio album of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Seiji Ozawa
bars were engaging and their absence was regrettable. But this irritating solecism was not grave enough to outweigh the asset that the album enjoyed in its
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Seiji Ozawa recording)
A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream_(Seiji_Ozawa_recording)
Verbs of the Hungarian language
("resist"), which separates as in Nem állok ellen ("I don't resist"). A common solecism among native speakers is the case of feltételez ("suppose" or "assume")
Hungarian_verbs
English writer (1909–2006)
Times, modestly expanded ES to Ernest in a puff for... his final book, the solecism prompted a modest rebuke… in a letter to the editor… [where Turner declared]
E._S._Turner
Greek; they vary widely in readability and quality, and contain many solecisms in idiom, some by the translators themselves, others from literally translating
Bible_translations_into_Latin
English New Testament scholar, historian, and professor (1872–1946)
partially, even though it may be necessary to apologize for frequent solecisms, and for an imperfect pronunciation." He kept his promise and quickly
Kirsopp_Lake
Temple in Montecito, California, United States
turned down due to the Swami's concern for possible financial imprudence or solecism. However, he eventually changed his mind on the following account: "But
Santa_Barbara_Vedanta_Temple
American performance artist, playwright
Joyrides! (1995) Bearing Witnesses (1996) O Wholly Night & Other Jewish Solecisms (1996) Critical Mass (1997) Bringing the Fishermen Home (1998) Three Seconds
Deb_Margolin
1823 novel by James Hogg
as a suitor for Gatty when M'Ion is out of favour, he commits various solecisms, and when M'Ion and his friends – incited by the mischievous Joseph, Gatty's
The_Three_Perils_of_Woman
Book of songs by Carl Michael Bellman
on an outing from the city. Britten Austin remarks that "until such solecisms are actually pointed out, one does not even notice them." It is the same
Fredmans_epistlar
forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Dead Sea Solecism, incorrect or ungrammatical usage of language — Soli an ancient city in
List of words derived from toponyms
List_of_words_derived_from_toponyms
Serbian archbishop and saint
Protos and the witnesses. Although the language is coarse and abounds in solecisms and "barbarisms", making it difficult to read, it was copied in skilled
Nicodemus_I_of_Peć
1967 book by Bernard Bailyn
belief that ' imperium in imperio ' [sovereignty-within-sovereignty] was a solecism and the assumption that the 'sovereignty of the people' and the sovereignty
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The_Ideological_Origins_of_the_American_Revolution
Romanian physician, activist, writer (circa 1850–circa 1918)
"dilettante", who, during his years at Amicul Copiilor, still employed "frequent solecisms". According to scholar Petre V. Haneș, Crăsescu had taught himself the
Victor_Crăsescu
1988 book by John Allen Paulos
without a trace of embarrassment to even the most egregious of numerical solecisms. I remember once listening to someone at a party drone on about the difference
Innumeracy_(book)
Culture of place in present-day Vietnam
ordinary Chams. Moreover, Sanskrit inscriptions contain many barbarisms and solecisms, indicating not only limited knowledge of the language but also superficial
Culture_of_Champa
1953 British film
music-hall sketch and there is more than enough of Max Bacon, who overworks solecisms, as Maxie, but Maudie Edwards, amusing as the matron, Fred Kitchen, jun
Take_a_Powder
Genre of poetry
translation of the Old Testament into Greek. The Old Latin Bible added further solecisms to those found in its source texts. None of the Christian scriptures were
Christian_poetry
creative thinking, but the result looks distinctly like that constitutional solecism, the recognition of a new prerogative ... the impact of the prerogative
R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Northumbria Police Authority
R_v_Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department,_ex_parte_Northumbria_Police_Authority
Fictional character created by Finley Peter Dunne
innocent to grasp that referring to the president so familiarly might be a solecism. Many Dooley pieces commence "I see by the papers", that is, the newspapers
Mr._Dooley
Byzantine Greek text about Constantinople
the eighth-century emperors. Its crabbed and elliptical Greek, full of solecisms, has made interpretation ambiguous. Though it is virtually the only secular
Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai
Parastaseis_syntomoi_chronikai
Biography by Vinod Mehta
new writer that time, he had not many of his own. He added: "All the solecisms and structural weakness were cringingly visible, but ... it was not as
Meena_Kumari_(book)
French writer, journalist, historian and politician (1770–1854)
rights acquired by romanticism that of distorting the language and making solecisms with impunity. They do not wish to imprison their genius within the rules
Antoine_Jay
ineptitudes, imperfections, clogged with gross ignorances, absurdities, and solecisms. " And so Edward satisfied this committee about his conduct, and the case
Sir_Edward_Lake,_1st_Baronet
14th century Byzantine mathematician
expounding the appropriate use of words, in order to avoid barbarisms and solecisms." In 2019, a new work of Rhabdas was found. Written on November 16, 1322
Nicholas_Rhabdas
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a.
Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
n.
Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
v. i.
To commit a solecism.
n.
An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
n.
One who commits a solecism.
n.
An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.