Entertainment / Literature / Hypercorrection: A grammatical form created when grammarians--on the basis of too little information or incorrect generalization--mistakenly try to correct a nonexistent error. For instance, a prescriptivist grammarian might tell a child not to 'drop the g' in words like talkin' and somthin'--then the confused child tries to overapply the rule by 'correcting' chicken to chickeng (Algeo 35).
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Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Plural: A plural word identical to its singular form. For instance, 'I saw one deer yesterday, but last week I saw five deer.' Here, the word deer is identical whether it is singular or plural. Other examples MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Overgeneralization: In linguistics, the introduction of a nonstandard or previously non-existent spelling or verb form when a speaker or writer makes an analogy to a regular spelling or a regular verb. For instance, a ch MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Linguistic Analogy: The modification of grammatical usage from the desire for uniformity. For instance, a child who states, 'I broked the toy' or a man who says 'I knowed the truth' is merely attempting to regularize the MORE