Solecism

Solecism. A solecism is the term applied to any violation of the grammar or idiom of a language, or of the usages of society. The word (Gr. Soloikismos) is derived from the city of Soli in Cilicia, whose inhabitants spoke very bad Greek, in consequence of their intercourse with the Cilician natives, and provoked the fastidious Athenians to coin the epithet.