hypercorrection in English

noun
1
the erroneous use of a word form or pronunciation based on a false analogy with a correct or prestigious form, such as between you and I for the standard between you and me.
It's interesting that everyone, prescriptivists and anti-prescriptivists alike, seems to think that hypercorrection is wrong, morally as well as logically.

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1. In the second place, hypercorrection often involves imitating what is thought to be prestige language.

2. Borrowed from French, earlier also baptiste, by hypercorrection from *batisse (associated with the proper name Baptiste, pronounced with cluster simplification as Batiste, Batisse), going back to Middle …

3. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, hypercorrection, old school tie, preset, technical foul Examples of 'Cerebrovascular' in a sentence

4. He finds that in regions of the country where deletion of [s] in coda position is the norm, hypercorrection in which [s] is inserted into words where it never existed, referred to as hablar fi s no, never produces forms in which the [s] has been inserted into the penultimate syllable of an Antepenultimately stressed word.