NONGRAMMATICAL Definition & Meaning

nongrammatical

[ non-gruh-mat-i-kuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of nongrammatical¹

First recorded in 1950–55; non- + grammatical

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Back in 2013, Bitcoin mania was reaching its first feverish peak, and everyone was sharing doge memes—a picture of a surprised/frightened/skeptical-looking shiba inu with some nongrammatical exclamations in comic sans, like “wow,” “much scared,” and “very snack.”

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A printer’s misreading, Mr. Bruster argues, may also explain a particularly clumsy and nongrammatical stretch in the Additional Passages.

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