This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on March 31, 2014.
Let’s do a practice round!
Solecism means:
A) A comforting gesture
B) A somber proclamation
C) A grammatical mistake
D) A wordy introduction
Vocab Practice: Solecism
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Cool Word Challenge: Solecism and Piquant
April 5, 2014 by
Cool Word Challenge: Just for fun, come up with one sentence that uses both of the cool vocabulary words that you learned this week.
Here are the words again:
Solecism: A grammatical mistake in speech or writing; a social blunder.
Piquant: Having a pleasant, spicy or pungent taste; interesting and exciting.
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Alice’s Stupendous Solecism…
March 31, 2014 by
Have you read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll?
This famous story tells of the puzzling series of events that occur when a young girl named Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole.
Struck by the oddness of the experience, Alice momentarily forgets the rules of grammar and proclaims herself: “Curiouser and curiouser!”
Over the years, this solecism (see definition and hear pronunciation below) has become a way to allude to topsy-turvy events.
So, anytime you hear the phrase “curiouser and curiouser,” it may be referring to something so odd that the speaker can’t even remember proper grammar!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can you think of any solecisms that you’ve heard in everyday speech?
Solecism: A grammatical mistake in speech or writing; a social blunder.
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