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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=sociolinguistics">sociolinguistics</a>, <b>hypercorrection</b> is the <a href="page.php?w=nonstandard_dialect">nonstandard</a> <a href="page.php?w=usage_%28language%29">use of language</a> that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of <a href="page.php?w=Prescriptive_grammar">language-usage prescription</a>. A speaker or writer who produces a hypercorrection generally believes through a misunderstanding of such rules that the form or phrase they use is more "correct", <a href="page.php?w=standard_language">standard</a>,</p><p>
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