Herb - Now Aluminum

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 23:54:27 UTC 2007


Carol 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?
> 
kcrani01 kindly responded: 

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

Carol again: 

(Slaps forehead.) Yes! Thank you very much.

Carol, now needing some sort of mnemonic device so she won't forget
"solecism" again





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