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solecism wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 etymology 2 examples 3 see also 4 references 5 external links toggle the table of contents solecism 21 languages العربية български català čeština deutsch ελληνικά esperanto español فارسی français עברית ido italiano 日本語 latina polski português русский svenska українська 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar not to be confused with solipsism a solecism is a phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar 1 the term is often used in the context of linguistic prescription it also occurs descriptively in the context of a lack of idiomaticness etymology edit the word originally was used by the greeks for what they perceived as grammatical mistakes in their language 2 3 ancient athenians considered the dialect of the inhabitants of soli cilicia to be a corrupted form of their pure attic dialect and labelled the errors in the form as solecisms greek σολοικισμοί soloikismoí sing σολοικισμός soloikismós therefore when referring to similar grammatical mistakes heard in the speech of athenians they described them as solecisms and that term has been adopted as a label for grammatical mistakes in any language in greek there is often a distinction in the relevant terms in that a mistake in semantics i e a use of words with other than appropriate meaning or a neologism constructed through application of generative rules by an outsider is called a barbarism βαρβαρισμός barbarismos whereas solecism refers to mistakes in syntax in the construction of sentences 4 examples edit name type of grammatical breach example catachresis wrong grammatical case this is just between you and i for this is just between you and me hypercorrection to avoid the correct you and me form in the predicate of copulative sentences even though me is the standard pronoun for the object of a preposition or the object of a verb whom shall i say is calling for who shall i say is calling hypercorrection resulting from the perception that whom is a formal version of who or that the pronoun is functioning as an object when in fact it is the subject one would say shall i say who is calling the leading pronoun could be an object only if say were used transitively and the sentence were structured thus whom shall i say to be calling catachresis double negative she can t hardly sleep for she can hardly sleep a double negative as both can t and hardly have a negative meaning see also edit english as she is spoke fowler s modern english usage catachresis disputed english grammar error linguistics malapropism prescription and description zeugma a rhetorical use of solecism for effect see wiktionary solecism noun 2 for secondary use barbarism linguistics references edit bryan a garner 2001 a dictionary of modern legal usage oxford university press p 816 isbn 978 0 19 514236 5 retrieved 20 may 2013 filion charles a january 2015 differences between english poetics and sanskrit poetics cite journal cite journal requires journal help solecism n online etymology dictionary 2023 08 29 retrieved 2023 09 07 σολοικισμός liddell henry george scott robert a greek english lexicon at the perseus project external links edit the dictionary definition of solecism at wiktionary v t e figures of speech overviews rhetoric rhetorical device narratology scheme trope literary device stylistic device glossary of rhetorical terms glossary of narratology list of fallacies schemes alliteration anadiplosis anaphora antimetabole antithesis aposiopesis assonance asyndeton chiasmus climax anti consonance epanadiplosis epiphrase epistrophe epizeuxis exergasia hendiadys homeoteleuton hypallage hyperbaton hysteron proteron isocolon parallelism paraprosdokian polyptoton polysyndeton schesis onomaton spoonerism symploce synathroesmus syndeton tmesis zeugma tropes allegory allusion antiphrasis antonomasia aphorism apostrophe catachresis ecphonesis ekphrasis epanorthosis found manuscript hyperbole adynaton dysphemism euphemism meiosis innuendo irony apophasis sarcasm litotes metaphor metonymy oxymoron onomatopoeia personification pleonasm procatalepsis pun antanaclasis rhetorical question simile synecdoche tautology categories rhetorical techniques figures of speech narratology category retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title solecism oldid 1360829143 categories ancient greek english grammar grammar linguistic error sociolinguistics hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata articles containing greek language text cs1 errors missing periodical articles containing ancient greek to 1453 language text this page was last edited on 23 june 2026 at 21 36 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents solecism 21 languages add topic