| barbarism | |
| bar'-bar-ism | from barbarizein, "to act like a foreigner" |
| barbarismus | |
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The use of nonstandard or foreign speech (see cacozelia); the use of a word awkwardly forced into a poem's meter; or unconventional pronunciation. | |
| Like solecisms, barbarisms are possible according to each of the four categories of change. | ||
| Examples | ||
| To you he
appeals that knew him ab extrema pueritia, whose placet
he accounts the plaudite of his pains, thinking his day-labor was
not altogther lavish'd sine linea if there be anything of all in
it that doth olere Atticum
in your estimate. —Thomas Nash, Preface to Greene's Menaphon
Pronouncing "bourgeoisie" as "bur-goy'-zee" |
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| See Also | ||
| Sources: | Quintilian 1.5.5-33; Sherry (1550) 36 | |
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