Hypercorrection

0 Hypercorrection is overcorrection. It's when you realize you have been doing something wrong (linguistically) and you make an effort to correct it and "speak correctly". But in the process you haven't really understood the rule and begin to apply it *****-nilly all over the place even when you shouldn't be applying it! 02br
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00An example is the use of "whom" when "who

0 Just for fun, I have included some more examples of hypercorrection from 01i00Webster's Dictonary of English Usage02i00: 02br
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00-... designed for you and 01b00I02b00. 02br
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0 hi 02br
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0 Hypercorrection [From Greek hyper- (over) + correction.] is 02br
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00-a construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, as in the substitution of I for me in on behalf of my parents and I. 02br
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As someone whose name begins with "H" a constant source of irritation! When spelling my name over the 'phone to hear "Harry" (for example) repeated as HAITCH> A< R< R< Y.

I don't think "between you and I" can be blamed entirely on hypercorrection. It's been attested since at least 1596, before English grammar was taught in school. Nowadays it might be partially due to hypercorrection, but I think something else is going on, namely something to do with how conjoined pronouns interact with case.

The same with "whom" in subject position, which is found in Sh

I believe that "wrong" usage of "whom" and certain pronouns in the "wrong" positions is a natural consequence of there being no actual strong pattern to their usage outside of grammar books.

"Haitch" is seen as a kind of low-level thing to say, isn't it?

Other examples posted here all seem more like examples of buggering up, rather than hypercorrection. Perhaps the "awfully" exam

I know that "as if" always requires the subjunctive in Spanish (como si), and I believe it would be correct to say "He asked as if he were apprehensive." The state of 'being apprehensive' is not a temporally concrete statement of fact. In other words, the subject's apprehensiveness is not claimed to happen in neither the present, past, nor future.

CalifJimHypercorrection is overcorrection

Now this is a clear example of hypercorrection as hypercorrection refers to a "usage" (of a wrong word/pronunciation based on a false analogy...) and not to a "correction".