Example sentences for: hypercorrection

How can you use “hypercorrection” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I kept wondering off and on about the matter till I realized that what I had heard was a case of double hypercorrection.

  • Adding the Japanese final vowels produces Gone with the Windo . Hypercorrection, where Japanese speakers learn that many final vowels do not exist in the American version of the tongue and so remove them, sometimes incorrectly, gives us the California cities of San Francisk and Sacrament . This process resulted in the sign reading Pizz and Coffee .

  • I believe this sort of phonetic hypercorrection is fairly common in language.

  • There is an academic legend that this solecism is a hypercorrection forced into our American English when generations of schoolmarms pounded into the heads of generations of schoolchildren that they must not say me in such combinations as me and Johnny done it . Not so.


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