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hypercoˈrrect, a. Linguistics.
Also hyper-correct (with hyphen).
[f. hyper- 4 a + correct a.]
Of a spelling, pronunciation, or construction: falsely modelled on an apparently analogous prestigeful form. Also of a speaker using such a form.
1922O. Jespersen Lang. xv. 294 Such hypercorrect forms are closely related to those ‘spelling pronunciations’ which become frequent when there is much reading of a language whose spelling is not accurately phonetic. 1937Amer. Speech XII. 167 When James the footman says chicking for ‘chicken’ he is being hypercorrect, leaning over backward to be correct. 1972Archivum Linguisticum III. 4 Modern authors have focussed on the [French] imperfect subjunctive as a hypercorrect grammatical form and have used it to characterize or satirize the pedantic and the pretentious.
Hence hypercoˈrrection, -coˈrrectness.
1934Webster, Hypercorrection, -ness. 1935Language XI. 143 It is only by unceasing vigilance that hyper⁓correction can be avoided by one whose native dialect has this phonological feature and who wishes to correct it. 1955Archivum Linguisticum VII. 142 Phonemic interference may be due to..phone substitution and hyper⁓correctness. 1959M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. in Mod. Times vi. 167 The zeal of social inferiors for hyper⁓correctness. 1964H. Kökeritz in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 141 Salmon..tends to become [ˈsɑmən] by hypercorrection. 1972Language XLVIII. 484 Hyper⁓corrections like tesk, mast (for ‘mask’) seem to establish that tes, mas are full forms in NNE and not stylistic reductions. |