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	hypercorrection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		[1] This is an example of hypercorrection used as parody: Churchill went beyond creating a grammatically correct sentence to mock the elaborate refusal to end a clause in a preposition (or insistence on placing the preposition before the relative pronoun); he treated the adverbial particles up and with as prepositions.
		Hypercorrective replacement of [12] with [13] in plurals may result partly from confusion over these homographs.
		An example of hypercorrecting a word rather than a pronunciation is found when law students - who have absorbed the idea that one should always say "British" rather than "English" (eg, "the King of England"), so as not to exclude Welsh, Scots, Irish, etc - baulk at using the term "English law".
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	Hypercorrection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This may be hypercorrection, or it may be simple confusion with the English word "express".
		Hypercorrection arises in the use of diacritics in words from foreign languages.
		This is due to a hypercorrection of the Rhineland accent prevalent in that area of Germany, an accent that replaces many 'ch' [ç] sounds with 'sch' [ʃ] sounds, making for a colourful accent often considered simple or vulgar by speakers of standard German.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hypercorrection (3014 words)

	Medieval Latin Online (University of Oklahoma)
		Hypercorrection occurs when there is a discrepancy between the "correct" forms of a language and the way that language is actually spoken or written.
		One of the most common forms of hypercorrection in medieval Latin has to do with the use of the letter "h" which was no longer pronounced.
		Since the "h" at the beginning of a word was often no longer pronounced, scribes would sometimes add an "h" at the beginning of a word, even when it was not necessary.
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	Times & Seasons » Hypercorrection
		Hypercorrection may also be involved in the recent phenomenon of referring to presidents of the church almost exclusively as “the Prophet,” a title that used to be reserved for Joseph Smith.
		Hypercorrection may explain the decision a few years ago to require the poor sister missionaries on Temple Square to wear solid dark skirts or jumpers with white or pastel blouses: no prints, no light colored dresses even in summer, nothing but the ugliest, plainest, unstylish styles.
		One way we deal with our propensity to hypercorrect in Mormonism is over supplementation of already correlated materials–statements from GAs, scriptures, etc. Thus, we get a lot of very similar sermons and not nearly as much personality and FLOW as we’d like from our speakers, teachers, and students.
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	Hypercorrection: Interesting Thing of the Day
		Hypercorrection is what occurs when someone deliberately tries to avoid making an error in the use of language but overcompensates and in so doing makes another error.
		One of my favorite examples of hypercorrection is the name of a dish consisting of cheese sauce over a slice of toast.
		Although the issue of hypercorrection is covered at great length in modern style guides and classes in English as a second language, this has done little to stem the spread of the memes for frequently miscorrected terms.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In ‘Language and the Culture of Gender,’ Silverstein identifies hypercorrection as a practice of overcompensation commonly employed in relatively formal speech situations.
		Hypercorrection involves the mistaken use of forms that are actually incorrect, but “sound” more correct, such as saying “you can drive with Bob and I,” when “Bob and me” would actually be proper.
		Another common use of hypercorrection is the unneeded use of “whom.
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	Hypercorrection, prestige and language change
		Of course this is not what is meant by hypercorrection, but hypercorrection means the correction of mistakes and transferring the new rule and applying it to correct utterances.
		According to Labov [Lab66] an interesting phenomenon appears in the lower middle class: The middle class uses the upper-middle class and/or the upper class as their reference but as part of their own society certain pronunciations do not appear in casual speech or at least not as often as in their reference group.
		They are in a state of stable affiliation to their class while the lower middle class strives for social advancements and is therefore in a state of changing affiliation.
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	Unit 5: Accent Phonology
		In this unit, we look at two different explanations for linguistic change and the phenomenon of hypercorrection (or the absence of hypercorrection) as a possible index of such changes.
		Traditionally, hypercorrection has been defined as "a misapplication of an imperfectly learned rule, as in the hypercorrect case marking of 'whom did you say is calling?'" (Labov 1972; 126).
		The notion of hypercorrection as an index of dialect esteem is controversial in sociolinguistics.
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	Some of the Ways Writers Hypercorrect at Deanna Hoak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hypercorrection is one of the most common mistakes I see good writers make—just not usually with the “good”/“well” distinction.
		Now if such hypercorrections occur in dialogue, a good copyeditor will figure out a) what the author is doing intentionally and b) what the author doesn’t actually know.
		I’ve noticed every one of those hypercorrections in the scholarly nonfiction I copyedit–although “whom” where it doesn’t belong is probably the most common in this field.
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	Appreciation strategies of German and Japanese native speakers and German learners of Japanese
		While the MCT data indicated hypercorrection by all three learner groups, the SRG showed the most similar strategy selection patterns to the JNS in terms of the ratios in 7 situations, whereas the LRG showed the strongest tendency towards hypercorrection in 9 situations.
		It should not be forgotten, however, that an even longer stay in Japan led to the hypercorrection and many of the subjects in the LRG reported that they were still not sure of the usage of each apologetic expression.
		Since the mean proficiency level of these 12 learners was almost the same as the JFL (mean score 6.6 and mean length of stay 10 days), it can be claimed that their length of residence rather than their proficiency contributed to the positive change towards native-like responses.
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	HYPERCORRECTION. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		In grammar and usage, hypercorrections are the new mistakes we make in the effort to avoid old ones.
		They are probably most common in the case of pronouns, as in using whom where who was called for, as in Whom shall I say was calling?
		The best defense against hypercorrection usually is circumlocution: when in doubt, say it another way, and avoid stepping onto the quicksand in the first place: try saying between the two of us instead of risking between you and I. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.
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	Issue 31 of LinguaPhile, an English Language Newsletter
		Hypercorrection is a common phenomenon in our society.
		One of the most common kinds of hypercorrection involves the use of subject and object pronouns.
		Many people have the idea that subject pronouns are superior to object pronouns, so they say something like "The message was for he and I." In fact, neither subject nor object pronouns are superior to the others; each kind is required in specific situations.
	www.grammarandmore.com /edu/archive/issue31.htm (0 words)

	March 11, 2004 - Hypercorrection - 2004-03-12
		AA: But this system survives in pronouns -- words like "I" and “me” and "she" and "her." And, as Professor Lynch explains, these can be confusing, and lead to common errors known as hypercorrections.
		LYNCH: "Hypercorrection is not simply being fussy or a nitpicker or a pedant.
		We don't say 'he did it good,' we say 'he did it well.' We don't say 'he ran quick.' We say 'he ran quickly.' But there is a whole class of verbs, verbs of being, which can include verbs related to sense, that do properly take the adjective.
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	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		"The truth is that hypercorrection isn't grammar's coup de grace.
		This comes as a shock to we (should be `us') people who care about grammar, but between you and I (should be `me'), hypercorrection is quite common." Rob Kyff, The Error of Fixing What Ain't Broke, The Hartford Courant, Apr 20, 1994.
		The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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		Halle and Idsardi further suggest that the origin of the 'r-insertion rule' is hypercorrection
		Hypercorrection is a sociolinguistic term that refers to when an individual or group changes their behavior to model it after another group's linguistic behavior
		Halle, Morris and William J. Idsardi (1997) r, hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition In Roca, Iggy (ed) Constraints and Derivations in Phonology.
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	Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style -- H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It's not a question of which is "right" or "wrong"; learn to suit your mechanics to the forum for which you're writing.
		Hypercorrection means being so concerned with getting the grammar right that you get it wrong.
		A hyphen separates the two parts of a compound word or the two elements of a range: self-conscious; pp.
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	Hypercorrection
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		- In grammar and usage, hypercorrections are the new mistakes we make in the effort to avoid old ones.
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	Solecism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"This is just between you and I." for "This is just between you and me." (hypercorrection to avoid the common, non-standard "you and me" form in the subject of sentences while "me" is, nonetheless, the standard pronoun for the object of a preposition.)
		"Whom ate the food?" for "Who ate the food?" (hypercorrection resulting from the perception that "whom" is a formal version of "who")
		"He's the person whom I believe is the fastest." for "He's the person who I believe is the fastest." (hypercorrection resulting from the perception that the relative pronoun is functioning as an object in the dependent clause when, in fact, it is a subject in this clause)
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	ASPECTS OF HINDI PHONOLOGY
		This study is a mixture of two types of evidence.
		Some evidence is provided from experimental data and other is from hypercorrection, from children's mistakes, from native speakers, reactions to certain forms.
		The model used is that of generative phonology with modifications suggested throughout.
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	LINGUIST List 3.106: Is, is, Finite-Sets
		On "What the best avenue for pointing this out is, however, unclear": I don't this is hypercorrection to avoid the "is is" construction we've been discussing.
		Alex Monaghan points out that I hypercorrected in the sentence: What the best avenue for pointing this out is, however, unclear.
		I even remember thinking about this one and choosing, it would seem, wrongly.
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	Language Log: An hero ain't nothing but a hypercorrection
		Language Log: An hero ain't nothing but a hypercorrection
		I cut the Addison "an heroick" quote from the earlier post.
		Perhaps Adams' "an hero" was a hypercorrection by a colonial with aspirations above his station -- I don't know the history -- but "an hero" does seem to be found pretty regularly around the time of Adams' letter, e.g.
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	hypercorrection
		And he was born and bred in Wisconsin.
		They want to sound all cultural-like on those.
		And I'm right here to tell you (that) the berries are just about all
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	argotnaut » He loved to drive in his Jagwire
		If I’m correct, this would be related to the British English hypercorrection phenomenon of tacking Rs onto the end of words (as in my friend Ian, who always called me “Leeser.”) When r-lessness was stigmatized, careful speakers would be sure to pronounce those word-final Rs.
		Maybe this pronunciation has just taken on a life of its own.
		american english british english california english hypercorrection jaguar jagwire Linguistics phonology pronunciation r lessness regional varieties sociolinguistics southern english
	argotnaut.com /2006/01/16/he-loved-to-drive-in-his-jagwire (0 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.1584: Lg learning lab, Hypercorrection in Jewish tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		FYI: Lg learning lab, Hypercorrection in Jewish tradition
		Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 22:35:53 creeping hypercorrection in Jewish tradition
		The following message was posted to the Ancient Near East List (in the context of the pronunciation of the divine name in Jewish tradition), and it includes interesting information about what I see as "creeping hypercorrection"--I thought it would interest our correspondents who have been discussing prescriptivism recently.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/6/6-1584.html (0 words)

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