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Your “Someone who speaks improper English...marks themselves as a bad candidate for trust” wins the award for Ironic Solecism of the Decade, though Sasha managed to come in second place.
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Also, Solecism resembles in a certain way those refutations which are said to depend on the like expression of unlike things.
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Solecism is the result aimed at in all arguments of the following kind: ‘Is a thing truly that which you truly call it?’
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Also, Solecism resembles in a certain way those refutations which are said to depend on the like expression of unlike things.
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Solecism is the result aimed at in all arguments of the following kind: ‘Is a thing truly that which you truly call it?’
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Such Ready-Reckoner is a Solecism in Eastcheap; and must, whatever be the press of business, and will and shall be rectified a little.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Doomed mortal; -- for is it not a doom to be Solecism incarnate!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Inevitable: it is the breaking-up of a World-Solecism, worn out at last, down even to bankruptcy of money!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Ready-Reckoner is a Solecism in Eastcheap; and must, whatever be the press of business, and will and shall be rectified a little.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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When the brains are out, why does not a Solecism die?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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