solecistic

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Really, help. com, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective.

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  • The k before e, or any letter except a, is solecistic, just as in no. 831 is the c, instead of k, for calendas. —  The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
  • Really, help. com, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective. —  [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • Yet another esoteric and solecistic equivalent to "male chauvinist" and the ism-fevered like? —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. —  Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
  • From Alexander [167] the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
 

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