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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:

> While I'm here, maybe someone can help me remember a word
> for a grammatical error or other linguistic infelicity (e.g.,
> "irregardless" for "regardless"). I'm not thinking of malapropism
> (using a word that sounds similar to the one you mean, often with
> comic effect). I hate it when a word I should know just slips out
> of my consciousness, but this particular word isn't used very often,
> so maybe I have some excuse. Any takers?


Carol, is the word you're looking for "solecism"?

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