hypercorrect

It was a nonstandard usage that some grammarians would call "hypercorrect" because the error was made by trying too hard to be correct.

Libertarian Blog Place 2010

It was a nonstandard usage that some grammarians would call "hypercorrect" because the error was made by trying too hard to be correct.

Libertarian Blog Place 2010

Gotcha with the “an professional” but “an history” always seemed hypercorrect to me.

The Volokh Conspiracy » How Would an 18-to-20-Year-Old Go About Buying a Handgun? 2010

Gotcha with the “an professional” but “an history” always seemed hypercorrect to me.

The Volokh Conspiracy » How Would an 18-to-20-Year-Old Go About Buying a Handgun? 2010

They might have spent hours agonizing over the writing of a formal business letter and ended up with a semi-comical paragraph of hypercorrect British English (these guys were mostly Indian and Pakistani) and aural copy errors ("strubroorn" for stubborn was one that took me a while to figure out) and even the poor cats needed a letter and had five dollars.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

Some big companies have begun to undertake efforts to zero in on human consciousness and capitalize on hypercorrect information flows.

A Zero Carbon Footprint? What Individuals Can Do To Make It Happen 2007

My father's insistent correction of me every time I said "I did good on that test" to "I did well" means that I now hypercorrect myself.

lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003

I take ASCRE (_BCH_) to be a hypercorrect formation by the scribes; _Ascra_ is metrically guaranteed at 34 'Ascra suo' and

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

At viii 15 _I_ has the hypercorrect _nil_ for _nihil_, and at xiii 26

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

So it may eventually happen that hypercorrect forms are accepted as normal, notwithstanding their dubious etymological provenance.

Interesting Thing of the Day 2008