- In sociolinguistics,
hypercorrection is the
nonstandard use of
language that
results from the
overapplication of a
perceived rule of language-usage prescription...
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Hypercorrection is the
higher likelihood of
correcting a
general knowledge error when
originally certain that the
information they
understand is accurate...
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instead of "He gave the ball to Bob and me". This is
often called a
hypercorrection,
since it is
perceived as
related to
avoidance of the
stigmatized incorrect...
- is just
between you and I" for "This is just
between you and me" (
hypercorrection to
avoid the
correct "you and me" form in the
predicate of co****tive...
- of
French loanwords was a
major factor in the shift. Middle-class
hypercorrection: Yet
others ****ert that
because of the
increasing prestige of French...
- amuse-bouche is not even
listed in most dictionaries,
being a
euphemistic hypercorrection that
appeared in the 1980s on
restaurant menus and used
almost only...
- H-adding, is
found in
certain situations,
sometimes as an
allophone or
hypercorrection by H-dropping speakers, and
sometimes as a
spelling pronunciation or...
- mother-in-law.
Hypercorrection is
defined by
Wolfram as "the use of
speech form on the
basis of
false analogy."
DeCamp defines hypercorrection in a more precise...
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example "an H-bomb" or "a H-bomb". The
pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ may be a
hypercorrection formed by
analogy with the
names of the
other letters of the alphabet...
- you and me'], but that did not make it any more correct". The term
hypercorrection, in this context,
refers to
grammatically incorrect usage, and is typically...
