Solecism

Analogously, in the non-criminal spheres the worst solecism is to be different. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Again, to use our old solecism, that is the lesser part of the truth; the greater part, for men of religion, is that Jesus is of God, that He belongs to Him. ❋ Albert Parker Fitch (N/A)

For what is called a solecism is nothing else than the putting of words together according to a different rule from that which those of our predecessors who spoke with any authority followed. ❋ Saint Augustine (1887)

You may see, it is true, an earth-worm in a robin's beak, and may hear a thrush breaking a snail's shell; but these little things are, as it were, passed by with a kind of twinkle for apology, as by a well-bred man who does openly some little solecism which is too slight for direct mention, and which a meaner man might hide or avoid. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)

"SAT" a kind of solecism, one of those repetitive redundancies that repeats itself -- bad form for a test measuring verbal ability.

A second-place tie between two teams that each have first-place trophies to dust - Root Learning Inc. and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library - resulted in a sudden-death runoff that ran to four words - "solecism," "jnana," diffa, and "issei," and Root hit pay dirt on

To some, any kind of solecism at all is offensive; to others, who consider themselves liberated, the essence of language lies in communication, however that may be construed as devoid of grammatical stringencies; to us, although rudimentary communication may have its virtues born of necessity, an essential part of communication remains the style with which information is transferred and the appropriateness of the style. ❋ Unknown (1976)

"It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people." ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

"It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people." ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

Everyone wants to apply general principles or knowledge to specific objects, but to do so in English prose by means of the so-called “past unreal conditional” is a solecism because this tense calls for (positively demands) a qualifying phrase beginning with “if,” or the equivalent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Juan Williams, the veteran liberal news analyst of both America's public radio network NPR and, somewhat improbably, Fox News, committed the ultimate journalistic solecism last week by becoming the story, for all the wrong reasons. ❋ Emily Bell (2010)

Matt, if you have the effrontery to use a solecism like “irregardless” then please at least have the common decency to mispell it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on. ❋ Unknown (2011)

• In early editions, the photo caption that accompanied a report of the jailing for life of two members of an east London street gang convicted of the murder of a girl of 16, Agnes Sina-Inakoju, contained the solecism that she "died 36 hours after being killed". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The frequency of this solecism in public notices and signs is most impressive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not a great solecism, but requiring a modest reproof, which is what it got. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What a solecism on mypart, aquite exquisite blunder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the book, credited to Lord Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton, is rubbish; and Glenn Slater's lyrics rhyme "Beneath a Moonless Sky" with the grammatical solecism "for you and I." ❋ Unknown (2010)

how else to describe "I am [already] loving you," her first [declaration] of feeling [for me], now two years old? ❋ Dundundun (2004)