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To avoid all suspicion of quibbling, I will say that a solecism may
occur in one word, but never in a word in isolation.
There is, however, some controversy as to the
number and nature of the different kinds of solecism.
Those who have dealt with the subject most fully
make a fourfold division, identical with that which
is made in the case of barbarisms: solecisms are
brought about by addition, for instance in phrases
such as nam enim, de susum, in Alexandriam;
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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