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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—Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)