- form of
their pure
Attic dialect and
labelled the
errors in the form as "
solecisms" (Gr****: σολοικισμοί, soloikismoí; sing.: σολοικισμός, soloikismós). Therefore...
-
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...
- educated.
Graffiti and low-quality
inscriptions with
misspellings and
solecisms indicate casual literacy among non-elites. The
Romans had an extensive...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- in
London society.
Contemporary reviewers, su****ious of the
numerous solecisms contained within the text,
eventually identified the
young Disraeli (who...
- 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...
-
solecism has
words that are
inconsistent in themselves,
while a
barbarism is made in
individual words”. Meanwhile, Quintili****
argued that
solecism can...
- "incorrect"
according to
traditional grammatical rules. However, such
solecisms are
sometimes not
errors but
intentional constructions in
which the rules...
