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What is a solecism?

What is a solecism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An erroneous or improper usage.
  2. (grammar) Error in the use of language.
  3. A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.
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That she did not, the living queens concluded, was the sort of solecism one had to expect from an imaginary being.
They may point out the odd mistake, or even a grammatical solecism, but, if they miss one, who is to blame?
Do not even consider committing the solecism of serving it with parmigiano.
Incidentally, the hyphen in Goose-Pimples is a solecism, but we'll never know whether it was written by Leigh or improvised by his cast.
This last solecism occurs during Schultz's epilogic rush through the final decades of his subjects' lives.
It would be a solecism in language to say that any portion of these is not included in the whole.

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