English Hypercorrection

1 english

1.1 personal pronouns
1.2 h-adding
1.3 hyperforeignism
1.4 english second language

english

english has no authoritative body governing correct usage, unlike other languages, such arabic (مجمع اللغة العربية), french (académie française , office québécois de la langue française), italian (accademia della crusca), icelandic (Íslensk málstöð), , spanish (real academia española). nonetheless, within groups of users of english, usages considered unduly elaborate adherences formal rules.

such speech or writing called hyperurbanism, defined kingsley amis indulged desire posher posh .

personal pronouns

jack lynch, assistant professor of english @ rutgers university, says correction of me , , subject leads people internalize rule , somehow more proper, , end using in places should not – such gave , when should gave , me.

on other hand, linguists rodney huddleston , geoffrey k. pullum claim utterances such invited sandy , heard in conversation of people status speakers of standard english clear , condemn assume case of pronoun in coordination must same when stands alone. actual usage in conflict assumption.

h-adding

some british accents, such cockney, drop initial h words, e.g. have becomes ave. hypercorrection associated h-adding, adding h word not have initial h . example of can found in speech of character parker in thunderbirds, e.g. ll ave h aristocrats ere (from episode vault of death ). parker s speech based on real person creators encountered @ restaurant in cookham.

another example british author sue townsend s adrian mole books, adrian mole discussing security guard when offer latest literary work review. security guard replies: h or h next poet laureate? h , h if h are, may h offer h utmost congratulations?

hyperforeignism

hyperforeignism arises speakers misidentifying distribution of pattern found in loanwords , extending other environments. result of process not reflect rules of either language. example, habanero pronounced though spelled ⟨habañero⟩, in imitation of other spanish words jalapeño , piñata.

english second language

some english-spanish cognates differ beginning s vs. es , such english word spectacular , spanish word espectacular . native spanish speaker may conscientiously hypercorrect word establish writing or saying stablish , archaic.