How do you pronounce Solecismic?
 

Is it so-la-siz-mick or sole-siz-mick or so-lee-siz-mick?

neither

sole-kiz-mick?

soe-leh-siz-mick in my mind.

I have been pronouncing it so-la-siz-mick and figured it may be wrong, but I don't know which one is the correct way to pronounce it.

Hmmm...I wonder if yours is the correct way to say it.

Jim.

sole-siz-mick


But then again, I'm a hick from southern West Virginia...what do I know?

I would say sole-a-size-mick.

I love it when you talk phonetics to me.

wä'nə sī'bər?

LOL!!!! Just KWhit it! Please just KWhit.

I'm pretty sure this thread has been done before. Along with the one that goes: do you pronouce it "fof" or "eff-oh-eff?"



FYI, I'm in the "sole-uh-siz-mik" camp.

Ell-Oh-Ell

How long have you been here?

Funny thread. More interesting than watching Anderson Cooper wear a bulletproof vest.

Mr. Cloud, what are you trying to say? I don't know what you BLANKING saying to me. :)

I pronounce it solecismic...exactly how it's spelt.

so-leh-siz-mik

EFF--OH--EFF

from the sart to this, this threead is fucking LOMfunyy LOL>

FOFF

smith

gangrene

I call this place foff-see.

so-leh sihz-mik

F.O.F., for symmetry with T.C.Y.

Ditto. I pronounce your name "arizona speech coach."

I call this place Front Office Football...or more like frontofficefootball.

so lee size mick or so li size mick

So is it "line-iks" or "lin-ucks"?

I think the Line - icks crowd has given up the battle, but for a while they were making for an annoying new strata in the everchanging nerd hierarchy.

Yeah, I know. When they started including Linus Torvold's pronunciation in .mp3 with various builds, I knew it had gone too far...

Lets play telephone.

T-R-O-U-T

Really? I pronounce it "Sex Stud." Weird.

Now that we know how to pronounce it, what the hell does it mean? :)

dick-shun-air-eee

The dictionary says the word doesn't exist. Adjective for solecism is solecistic.

Soul Sizz Mick

Roffle

I know I've told this story here before, but Solecismic came into being one night in 1994 or 1995.

I had just joined AOL (back when it was the only real option for home internet service) and I was just getting into their trivia contests. People always played under handles, so I needed to create one. Since I'm an old English major, and the theme of many of the games I played was literature, I wanted something obscure that English majors might "get."

So I took the word Solecistic, which means making a mistake, or a grammatical mistake, and I made a pun out of it. Solecismic is an error about a word describing an error. Absolutely hilarious, right? Right?

A year or so later, when I decided it might be fun to create games for a living, I needed a company name. The literature I read from the Small Business Association said that the best company names were from made-up words. That way, you're far less likely to engender confusion or lawsuit situations. So I took my AOL screen name.

We've been talking about internet dating in other items here. I met my wife through the AOL Trivia channel.

There was internet in 1994?

Just kidding. Great story.

FYI, from Websters:

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Solecistic \Sol`e*cis"tic\, a. Solecistical.

Ergo

Solecismic = \Sol`e*cis"mic\

What are you getting at? Solcismical?

And I thought it had something to do with tectonic plate movement or earthquake activity.

I've always said it:

soul-kizz-mick