solecisms

• “They, too, can read and write, of course, but their "solecisms," "barbarisms," and "vulgarisms" call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all — to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2

• “These mathematical solecisms are illustrated with many topical examples, ranging from the non-perils of NutraSweet and the inequities of the death penalty to the numerical skullduggery behind the U.S. abandonment of the nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union in 1982.”

  The Washington Post: Charles Seife's "Proofiness," reviewed by John Allen Paulos

• “He's an insane, full-on, writing monster, providing timely judgments ( "there is literary worth to be found within mass culture") and solecisms galore, and no mere newspaper editor's sense of, er, literacy will stop him.”

  Explain Yourself

• “Am I always going to look back and see the errors, inconsistencies and literary solecisms in my work?”

  2010 March 13 | The Long Write

• “In my mouth it becomes clunky and without music, full of awkward solecisms and embarrassed pauses.”

  "Rookie mistake."

• “Palin has mastered the art of converting her malapropisms, solecisms, and other blunders (social and linguistic) into badges of patriotism and into testimony of her carefully contrived image as someone who represents the working people of America.”

  “Refudiate”: how to miscreate a word « Motivated Grammar

• “He even took private instruction in English, and succeeded in eliminating his worst faults, though in moments of excitement he was prone to lapse into "you-all," "knowed," "sure," and similar solecisms.”

  Chapter I

• “But there's no denying that Solenn 'Lavanant Linke's touching Dido and Yeree Suh's bright Belinda are not totally idiomatic in their command of the language, and there are some solecisms from all the cast.”

  The Guardian: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; La Nouvelle Ménestrandie, Cappella Mediterranea/ Alarcón

• “And it's a mistake to read too much significance into these slips and solecisms.”

  NPR: Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

• “It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.”

  Gershon Hepner: William Safire

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