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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

   NOUN:SOLECISM; bad -, false -, faulty- grammar; grammatical blunder; faux pas [F.], error, slip; slip of the pen, lapsus calami [L.]; slip of the tongue, lapsus linguœ [L.]; slipslop; bull, Hibernianism; barbarism, impropriety.
   VERB:SOLECIZE or solecise, commit a solecism; use -bad, – faulty- grammar; murder the King’s (or Queen’s) English; speak -, write- out of the idiom; break Priscian’s head.
   ADJECTIVE:UNGRAMMATICAL; incorrect, inaccurate, faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic or solecistical; slipslop.