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Usage vs Hyperforeignism - What's the difference?

usage | hyperforeignism |

As nouns the difference between usage and hyperforeignism

is that usage is the manner or the amount of using; use while hyperforeignism is the misapplication of foreign pronunciation or usage.

usage

English

(wikipedia usage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panel

    References

    * * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

    Anagrams

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    hyperforeignism

    English

    (Hyperforeignism)

    Noun

  • (linguistics, uncountable) The misapplication of foreign pronunciation or usage.
  • (linguistics, countable) An instance or example of hyperforeignism.
  • * 1982 , John C. Wells, Accents of English 1: An Introduction , p 108:
  • Educated people are thus aware that words in or from foreign languages are subject to somewhat different reading rules from those applying to English. But they are often vague about them, and about the different rules applicable to different foreign languages. Many resulting pronunciations are absurd in that they reflect neither the reading rules of English nor those of the language from which the word in question comes. For example, there is an awareness based on French that /d?/ is an English-type consonant, for which /?/ is the ‘foreign’ equivalent. But when this leads to raj, Taj Mahal, mah-jongg,'' or ''adagio with /?/ instead of /d?/ (although the languages of origin have affricates in these words), we have what might well be called a hyperforeignism . [boldfaced in source]

    Synonyms

    * spelling pronunciation

    See also

    * foreignizing * hyperforeign, hyper-foreign * hyperforeignization, hyper-foreignization * hyperdialectalism