In cases like terlet, this produces a form which is not only hypercorrect, but also in fact non-existent in the more prestigious form of speech. |
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She had been a dry, hypercorrect performer. |
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The hypercorrect behavior of the lower middle class is seen as a synchronic indicator of linguistic change in progress. |
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Starting with oral language can prevent a hypercorrect, stilted, unnatural tone among novice writers. |
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Foreign observers sometimes mistook the head anchor for an official government spokesperson, since the tone of his voice was hypercorrect, never revealing any emotion. |
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This use of which is found in other non-standard dialects, and may be a hypercorrect form, arising from a feeling that which is superior to the more informal that. |
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