Barbarism (linguistics)
Barbarism refers to a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism refers to an error in syntax. The term is used mainly for the written language. With no accepted technical meaning in modern linguistics, the term is little used by descriptive scientists.
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“The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)