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Hypercorrection

Published on 15 May 2009. Tagged with linguistics.

The term hypercorrection has different meanings in different subject areas: in the game of golf, hypercorrection occurs when overcorrecting for a potential slice and so creating a hook instead; in language, hypercorrection refers to over-correcting for words or phrases that are actually correct.