Definition & Meaning | English word HYPERCORRECT

Definitions of HYPERCORRECT

1. (linguistics) Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.
2. (transitive, linguistics) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
3. (transitive, rare) To correct excessively.

Examples of Using HYPERCORRECT in a Sentence

• Zuckermann analyses this phenomenon as over-applied, hypercorrect "emblematicity" due to Othering: the Ngarrindjeri revivalists are trying to define themselves vis-à-vis the "Other", distancing themselves from "the colonizers' mother tongue, Australian English" (even at the expense of losing one of their own original rhotics).
• However, argues Zuckermann, due to massive puristic pressure, Israelis end up with hypercorrect forms such as shlósh-et ha-dód-ot ("the three aunts"), as opposed to the puristic shlósh ha-dod-ót.

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