Taxonomy vs Hypercorrect - What's the difference?
taxonomy | hypercorrect |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage
To change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=William Safire, title=And Now This, work=New York Times
, passage=I use reduplicate to mean redouble, though both words should mean quadruple, but English is funny that way, so hold off on the hypercorrecting gotcha! }}
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective hypercorrect is
(grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.As a verb hypercorrect is
to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologyhypercorrect
English
(hypercorrection)Alternative forms
* hyper-correctAdjective
(en adjective)- The often exaggerated addition of /h/ before words like "out" in written Cockney is a hypercorrect affectation.
Derived terms
* hypercorrection, hyper-correction * hypercorrective, hyper-corrective * hypercorrectness, hyper-correctnessVerb
(en verb)citation