hyper-correction

The confusion on this point, now being gradually cleared up in the public mind, has led to hyper-correction on the matter of decades.

On the matter of decades superversive 2010

In other words, if they speak in a non-standard way it will be more noticeably nonstandard than non-standard speaking me, and if they speak in a "standard" form, it will be closer to the standard or even over-reaching, in the case of hyper-correction than men.

languagehat.com: BBC VOICES. 2005

In an English author trying to write about Americans, what happened here could be taken as a form of hyper-correction classic example of hyper-correction: "Will you come to the movies with Jane and I?"

Juvenile fun with author malapropisms. bradamant 2005

The confusion on this point, now being gradually cleared up in the public mind, has led to hyper-correction on the matter of decades. var doubleclick_ad_params = 'a = 1; r = 0; w = 1; wg = 1; wa = 43; wc = CA; wi = 18th; wi = century; wi = literature; wi = 19th; wi = century; wi = literature; wi = abba; wi = ancient; wi = history; wi = ancient; ra = 43; rg = 1; jid = 7429599; c = jo; pt = jo; pc = c0; pc = l0; pc = le ';

superversive: On the matter of decades superversive 2010