In sociolinguistics, hypercorrection is the nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription...

Hypercorrection is the higher likelihood of correcting a general knowledge error when originally certain that the information they understand is accurate...

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...

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 copulative...

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...

the Latin plural should be curricula vitarum is in fact an incorrect hypercorrection based on superficial knowledge of Latin.) Applicant tracking system...

of French loanwords was a major factor in the shift. Middle-class hypercorrection: Yet others assert that because of the increasing prestige of French...

transcription delimiters. A hyperforeignism is a type of qualitative hypercorrection that involves speakers misidentifying the distribution of a pattern...

German legions including 'XVIII PR' – surely here the stonecutter's hypercorrection for IIXX PR. Gachard, M. (1862). "II. Analectes historiques, neuvième...

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...