Is Hypercorrect a Word?

overly correct; excessively fastidious; fussy: hypercorrect manners.

What is the meaning of Hypercorrect?

Definition of hypercorrect

: of, relating to, or characterized by the production of a nonstandard linguistic form or construction on the basis of a false analogy (such as "badly" in "my eyes have gone badly")

What is social Hypercorrection?

Hypercorrection (or hyperurbanism) is a sociolinguistic term, i.e. it refers to the. social function of certain linguistic phenomena, not to those phenomena them- selves.