hypercorrectadj.

1922 O. 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.

1937 Amer. Speech 12 167 When James the footman says chicking for ‘chicken’ he is being hypercorrect, leaning over backward to be correct.

1972 Archivum Linguisticum 3 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.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hypercorrection, -ness.

1935 Language 11 143 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.

1964 H. Kökeritz in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 141 Salmon..tends to become [ˈsɑmən] by hypercorrection.

1972 Language 48 484 Hyper~corrections like tesk, mast (for ‘mask’) seem to establish that tes, mas are full forms in NNE and not stylistic reductions.

1955 Archivum Linguisticum 7 142 Phonemic interference may be due to..phone substitution and hyper~correctness.

1959 M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. in Mod. Times vi. 167 The zeal of social inferiors for hyper~correctness.