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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hypercorrect .
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Examples
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When someone mistakenly uses "you and I" in an attempt to avoid breaking the "don't use 'me' incorrectly" rule, he or she has hypercorrected, which is to say, flubbed.
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Over time, Jasanoff presumes that as subjunctives became presents in their own right, they developed "doubly marked" subjunctives (hence the original subjunctive *bʰer-e-t(i) was replaced by a hypercorrected *bʰer-e-e-t(i) - *bʰer-ē-t(i)).
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Over time, Jasanoff presumes that as subjunctives became presents in their own right, they developed "doubly marked" subjunctives (hence the original subjunctive *bʰer-e-t(i) was replaced by a hypercorrected *bʰer-e-e-t(i) - *bʰer-ē-t(i)).
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It even shows a hypercorrected name Ferclite which was originally Herclite.
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It even shows a hypercorrected name Ferclite which was originally Herclite.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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If you eat like Bob and I, you will be healthy. is a hypercorrection (though still probably "right" in some people's personal hypercorrected dialects, e.g. the people answering above).
Ask MetaFilter 256 2009
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