- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
prefix with the
surname alone, e.g. "The
Reverend Smith", is
incorrect (a
solecism) in
formal usage. The
style always precedes titles, such as
Canon or Doctor...
- educated.
Graffiti and low-quality
inscriptions with
misspellings and
solecisms indicate casual literacy among non-elites. The
Romans had an extensive...
- term for this
subject is orthology, and in this
sense its
opposite is
solecism. The
study of
orthoepeia by the Gr****
sophists of the 5th
century BCE,...
- (for example, I seed two
deers for I saw two deer). By this correlation,
solecism to native-speaking
monolingual minds often sounds childish. However, when...
-
English grammar Euphemism Grotesque body
Heteroglossia Linguistic purism Solecism Vernacular Johannes Tromp, The ****umption of Moses: A
Critical Edition...
- but I know
better the
other kind. He
never sinks to the
depths of my
solecisms, but
neither does he
scale my
verbal peaks.": 282
Nabokov translated...
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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"...
