solecism

1. An error or improper usage.Examples: "The "simple" metaphor, such as the instance given, becomes the "continued" metaphor when the analogy or similitude is worked out in a series of phrases and expressions based on the primary metaphor; it is in such "continued metaphors" that the solecism of "mixed" metaphors is likely to occur."; "Eliot and Gertrude Stein had a solemn conversation, mostly about split infinitives and other grammatical solecisms and why Gertrude Stein used them."; "Prepositions are also prone to particular solecisms and infelicities."Synonyms: aberration, barbarism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, break