The author committed a solecism by using the word ain't while trying to write in a dialect that was unfamiliar. From LearnThat.org.
Analogously, in the non-criminal spheres the worst solecism is to be different. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
"SAT" a kind of solecism, one of those repetitive redundancies that repeats itself -- bad form for a test measuring verbal ability. From Wordnik.com. Reference
What a solecism on mypart, aquite exquisite blunder. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
In fact, the opposite interpretation would be a solecism. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
This part of our jurisprudence was occasioned by a solecism. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The solitude of the Palais Royal has become a mockery and a solecism. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Headline solecism and goof that makes the statement seem fashionable. From Wordnik.com. [Charles D. Ellison: Designer Racism] Reference
One custom, however, prevails, which I looked upon as a solecism in politeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
In the very dead watches of all, at least, if there be not a solecism in speech. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
He glanced at the Medallion, carefully avoiding the solecism of staring at Aiello. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
This is a solecism which may be avoided by employing an adjective pronoun in its stead. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
For, just as there we come upon a material solecism, so here we come upon a verbal: for. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
For it is the solecism of power, to think to command the end, and yet not to endure the mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Then, sensible of a small solecism in her manners, Bebelle twisted her right hand in a leg of the. From Wordnik.com. [Somebody's Luggage] Reference
It would be a solecism in language to say that any portion of these is not included in the whole. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
The phrase "to catch cold," so often in the mouths of physicians and patients, is a curious solecism. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
To represent by the same word, and without figure, property, and the owner of that property, is a solecism. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
For this reason, also, no solecism is incurred, suppose any one asks, ‘Is a thing what you say it to be?’. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
Thus we have not merely been dealing with only one half of the truth, but that, to use a solecism, the lesser half. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
That would be a solecism indeed! and yet to increase the inconsistence, in another part of your letter you call me a beau. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
In China, as you know, a guest or a host would have killed himself rather than commit so gross a solecism; but this is America. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Nilakantha accepts that reading, and explains it in his gloss remarking that the grammatical solecism occuring in it is a license. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
It would be a solecism to suppose a race or animals created, without sufficient foresight and energy to preserve their own existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Coventry; and his banishment thither, incurred by that most unpardonable offence in modern morality, a solecism in the code of honour. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
But it nowhere commits the flagrant solecism of supposing that this right of the master annuls or excludes all the rights of the slave. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
This act of inhumanity, clearly inspired if not wholly sanctioned by a majority sentiment in the community, is not a solecism in history. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Nay, believe me never yet was any solecism committed by that valiant champion who often hath for me in Belly-dale stood sentry at the hypogastrian cranny. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
She is not willing to lose a woman's birthright of love and devotion, but is not quite sure how far it might be affected by her ability to detect a solecism. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Further, the following fact leads to solecism, viz. that the sentence does not work out properly if you annex to two terms a third which does not suit them both. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
But, why women in health should be more familiar with each other than men are, when they boast of their superiour delicacy, is a solecism in manners which I could never solve. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
I am aware that high authority might easily be found in this country to sanction the custom of giving the hand upon a first meeting, but it is undoubtedly a solecism in manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
And that tribes of men, like flocks of sheep, should quietly follow such a leader, is a solecism that only a desire of present enjoyment and narrowness of understanding can solve. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
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