Hypercorrection

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

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

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Hypercorrection”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia