This week’s theme
Places that became verbs

This week’s words
birminghamize
barbados
solecize
locarnize
debunk

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SOL-uh-syz)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To make an error in language, etiquette, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Soloi, an ancient Athenian colony in Cilicia, whose dialect the Athenians considered as substandard. Earliest documented use: 1627. The noun form is solecism

USAGE:

“His prose stops clunking only in order to solecise.”
Christopher Bray; Jack Nicholson Deserves a Better Biography Than This; The Daily Beast (New York); Oct 31, 2013.

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