A grammatical mistake or an ungramatical usage; breaching good etiquette or manners; in general some sort of error or mistake
DB 📉
@konvolutj.bsky.social
currently reading (it's not bad): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/22589/mrs-woolf-and-the-servants-by-alison-light/9780140254105 apparently Woolf thought Yorkshire was somewhere near Birmingham, a solecism pointed out to her in a letter from an unemployed weaver in Huddersfield
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RevPudDudley
@revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Another useful word vis a vis the unPresident:
SOLECISM, as in 'He committed an unpardonable solecism, as he does constantly''
defined as 1. nonstandard or ungrammatical usage
2 a breach of good manners or etiquette.
3 any error, impropriety, or inconsistency.
Oh the other one?
BENEATH […]
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Gwyntaglaw
@gwyntaglaw.bsky.social
*radio crackle* drop the solecism bomb
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