His constant use of poor grammar was seen as a major solecism in the academic community.
Frank's solecism caused his debate team much embarrassment.
Solecism
solecism
antedate, metachronism, misdate, misplacement, postdate, prolepsis, solecism
I don't knowwww Edit: a solecism is a grammatical error, often produced by unnecessary redundancies and double negatives. Two examples of solecisms are "I ain't done nothing," in place of "I haven't done anything," and "the problem being that" in place of "the problem is." Some solecisms are acceptable for artistic use, but most are not approved of in prose.
Achilles heel*, blemish, daintiness, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccability, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, suscept, weak point
blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip
Main Entry:faux pasPart of Speech:nounDefinition:social errorSynonyms:blooper, blooper, blunder, blunder in etiquette, boo-boo, botch, breach, break, bungle, colossal blunder,error, flop, flub, foul-up, gaffe, gaffe, gaucherie,goof, hash, impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion,mess, mess-up, misconduct, misjudgment, misstep,mistake, offense, oversight, slip, social blunder ,solecism, transgression
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern S-L-CIS-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter S and 3rd letter L and 5th letter C and 6th letter I and 7th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: solecise solecism solecist
"Solecism" would cover it, though that can mean any mistake in language. "Hypercorrection" is another useful word. It describes when people are trying so hard to avoid one mistake that they make another. For example, saying "whom" even where "who" would be appropriate: "Support our teachers, whom have simply had enough!" Answer The word you are looking for is malapropism, it means if someone tries to sound intelligent, and they use big words in the wrong context. Another word for that would be dogberryism which means the same thing.
"Thaw" and "unthaw" technically mean the same thing - to cause frozen items to become unfrozen or defrosted. However, "thaw" is more commonly used and considered the correct term, while "unthaw" is often used incorrectly as a synonym due to a misunderstanding of the prefix "un-."