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As for solecisms connected
with expressions of quantity, there are some who
will regard phrases such as magnum peculiolum1 as a
solecism, because the diminutive is used instead of
the ordinary noun, which implies no diminution. I
think I should call it a misuse of the diminutive rather
than a solecism; for it is an error of sense, whereas
solecisms are not errors of sense, but rather faulty
combinations of words.
1 Lit. “A great little fortune.”
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