Usage vs Hypercorrect - What's the difference?
usage | hypercorrect |
The manner or the amount of using; use
Habit or accepted practice
(lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
# Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
# Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
(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 usage
is the manner or the amount of using; use.As a 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.usage
English
(wikipedia usage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panelReferences
* * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.Anagrams
* ----hypercorrect
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
