FrogMan
12-09-2004, 07:29 AM
Word of the Day for Thursday December 9, 2004
solecism \SOL-uh-siz-uhm\, noun:
1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; also, a
minor blunder in speech.
2. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
3. Any inconsistency, mistake, or impropriety.
An accurate report of anything that has ever been said in
any parliament would be blather, solecism, verbiage and
nonsense.
--"Hansard of the Highlands," [1]Times (London), February
17, 2001
Her English is good, apart from a few stubborn
idiosyncrasies of preposition and tense, but these are
music to me, sung solecisms -- how else to describe "I am
already loving you," her first declaration of feeling for
me, now two years old?
--Ronan Bennett, [2]The Catastrophist
In those days smoking in the streets was an unpardonable
solecism.
--Edmund Yates, Recollections
. .. another of her fabrications or flat-footed solecisms
or, at any rate, a simple indication of the boundless
ineptitude with which she manages Leonardo's affairs.
--R.M. Berry, [3]Leonardo's Horse
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Solecism comes from Latin soloecismus, from Greek soloikizein,
"to speak incorrectly," from soloikos, "speaking incorrectly,"
literally, "an inhabitant of Soloi," a city in ancient Cilicia
where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken.
References
1. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870363/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/1573660310/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=solecism
Just got it by email. Thought it funny :)
FM
solecism \SOL-uh-siz-uhm\, noun:
1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; also, a
minor blunder in speech.
2. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
3. Any inconsistency, mistake, or impropriety.
An accurate report of anything that has ever been said in
any parliament would be blather, solecism, verbiage and
nonsense.
--"Hansard of the Highlands," [1]Times (London), February
17, 2001
Her English is good, apart from a few stubborn
idiosyncrasies of preposition and tense, but these are
music to me, sung solecisms -- how else to describe "I am
already loving you," her first declaration of feeling for
me, now two years old?
--Ronan Bennett, [2]The Catastrophist
In those days smoking in the streets was an unpardonable
solecism.
--Edmund Yates, Recollections
. .. another of her fabrications or flat-footed solecisms
or, at any rate, a simple indication of the boundless
ineptitude with which she manages Leonardo's affairs.
--R.M. Berry, [3]Leonardo's Horse
_________________________________________________________
Solecism comes from Latin soloecismus, from Greek soloikizein,
"to speak incorrectly," from soloikos, "speaking incorrectly,"
literally, "an inhabitant of Soloi," a city in ancient Cilicia
where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken.
References
1. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870363/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/1573660310/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=solecism
Just got it by email. Thought it funny :)
FM