[37]
I do
not entirely concur with this view nor yet do I
[p. 97]
wholly dissent. I admit that a solecism may occur
in a single word, but with this proviso: there must
be something else equivalent to another word, to
which the word, in which the error lies, can be
referred, so that the solecism arises from the faulty
connexion of those symbols by which facts are expressed and purpose indicated.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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