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Solecism logo #10101) Aint 2) Gaffe 3) Inelegance 4) Slip
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Solecism

Solecism logo #10101) Bad grammar 2) Barbarism 3) Bit of nonstandard grammar 4) Bloomer 5) Blooper 6) Blunder 7) Boner 8) Boo-boo 9) Botch 10) Bull 11) Bungle 12) False grammar 13) Faulty grammar 14) Faux pas 15) Flub 16) Foul-up 17) Fuckup 18) Gaffe 19) Gaucherie 20) Grammatical error 21) Grammatical glitch 22) Impropriety
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Solecism

Solecism logo #21000 In traditional grammar, a solecism is a phrase that trespasses the rules of grammar. The word originally was used by the Greeks for what they perceived as grammatical mistakes in their language. Ancient Athenians considered the dialect of the inhabitants of their colony, Soli, in Cilicia to be a corrupted form of their own pure Attic dialect, and ...
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solecism

solecism logo #22641a grammatical mistake; a breach of etiquette
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Solecism

Solecism logo #21002• (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.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
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Solecism

Solecism logo #22385The area around the city of Soloi in ancient Cilicia had a population who spoke a nonstandard form o
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Solecism

Solecism logo #20972Sol'e·cism noun [ French solécisme , Latin soloecismus , Greek soloikismo`s , from soloiki`zein to speak or write incorrectly, from so`loikos speaking incorrectly, from the corruption of the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of So`loi
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