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: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2 1984

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

2010 March | The Long Write 2010

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 2010

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 2010

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

"Rookie mistake." veejane 2009

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 2010

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.

Charles Seife's 'Proofiness,' reviewed by John Allen Paulos John Allen Paulos 2010

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

2010 March 13 | The Long Write 2010

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.

Charles Seife's "Proofiness," reviewed by John Allen Paulos John Allen Paulos 2010

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

raison d’ecrire | The Long Write 2010