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solecism

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɒlɪsɪzəm/Part of speech nounSorted ceilmossStarts with SEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a socially awkward or tactless act

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French solecisme, soloëcisme (French solécisme) or its etymon Latin soloecismus, from Ancient Greek σολοικισμός (soloikismós), from σόλοικος (sóloikos, “speaking incorrectly”), from Σόλοι (Sóloi), an ancient Athenian colony in Cilicia whose inhabitants spoke a dialect regarded by Athenians as a corrupted and barbarous form of Attic Greek. Compare Atticism.

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  • Eliot and Gertrude Stein had a solemn conversation, mostly about split infinitives and other grammatical solecisms and why Gertrude Stein used them.
  • Prepositions are also prone to particular solecisms and infelicities.

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