Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Solecism’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Solecism

noun

Definition

A grammatical mistake in speech or writing.

error, blunder;

A breach of good manners; an instance of incorrect behaviour.

Examples

“This year, it seems likely that a number of my fellow countrymen will be spending a good deal of time pedantically pursuing punctuation rules and grumbling at grammatical solecisms.”

“This, I believe, is the only grammatical solecism Esther perpetrates in her long narrative.”

“Everyone in the publishing process should report a solecism that would otherwise go undetected — a misspelling, a grammatical error.”

“But he never brooked any solecism in behaviour inside his courtroom.”

“In any case, it was unlikely that John would commit any solecism of protocol, since he was already well acquainted with him, he having been one of his close relatives.”

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 19th, 2015