Example sentences for: solecism

How can you use “solecism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Your readers, treasuring punctilio the way we do, will have written you in hot numbers about the familiar solecism that slipped past author Bill Ramson and the copy editor who sits next to you: in Dharuk Words in English, XXIII, 1, 10], we find, Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.

  • This description was, of course, an allusion to the solecism that has been used to promote Miller Lite: “Lite has a third less calories than their regular beer.”

  • There is an academic legend that this solecism is a hypercorrection forced into our American English when generations of schoolmarms pounded into the heads of generations of schoolchildren that they must not say me in such combinations as me and Johnny done it . Not so.

  • In British English it is no longer considered a solecism to use the plurals they, their, them, theirs as a generalized pronoun for words like eyeryone, everybody, anyone, anybody , etc.

  • In “The Past As Prologue,” by William H. Dougherty [XVI,3], the solecism like to of, as in The boy like to of killed hisself, is labeled as being limited to a region of Texas.


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