Hypercorrection (pronounced HI-per-ke-REK-shun) is a pronunciation, word form, or grammatical construction produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct.

What is hypercorrection in English?

Linguistic hypercorrection occurs when a real or imagined grammatical rule is applied in an inappropriate context, so that an attempt to be "correct" leads to an incorrect result. It does not occur when a speaker follows "a natural speech instinct", according to Otto Jespersen and Robert J.

What is social hypercorrection?

Hypercorrection (or hyperurbanism) is a sociolinguistic term, i.e. it refers to the. social function of certain linguistic phenomena, not to those phenomena them- selves.