Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...
The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...