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What does hypercorrection mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The use of a nonstandard form due to a belief that it is more formal or more correct than the corresponding standard form.
  2. (linguistics) A nonstandard form so used.
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This hypercorrection derives from his not actually reading the etymologies that he copies.
Presaging modern spellchecker-generated errors, someone at the Times apparently committed an editorial hypercorrection.
Committing such a hypercorrection in an anti-elitist discourse subverts the argument.
Fear of offending the grammar police can even produce a novel type of error called a hypercorrection.
It's clearly not hypercorrection, since the move is away from a more standard variant.
This is the most common hypercorrection error.

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