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  • Your next intollerable vice is _solecismus_ or incongruitie, as when we speake halfe English, that is by misusing the _Grammaticall_ rules to be obserued in cases, genders, tenses, and such like, euery poore scholler knowes the fault, & cals it the breaking of _Priscians_ head, for he was among the Latines a principall Grammarian.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Your next intollerable vice is solecismus or incongruitie, as when we speake false English, that is by misusing the Grammaticall rules to be obserued in cases, genders, tenses and such like, euery poore scholler knowes the fault & cals it the breaking of Priscians head, for he was among the Latines a principall Grammarian.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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