English
hypercorrection
From hyper- + correction.
A compound of hyper- + correction
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Today it means
noun Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
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Etymograph / hypercorrection