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Re: Dangling

To: "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>
Subject: Re: Dangling
From: Kelvin Bailey <prestokelvo at yahoo_com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:33:06 -0800 (PST)
Cc: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
In-Reply-To: <20010321222557.21645.qmail at web6102_mail.yahoo.com>


--- "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com> wrote:
> 
> no...you're right.  it may not be as pretentious for
> all, but it's called "hypercorrection" in
> linguistics.
> 

Hypercorrection...I think I shall use that term. 
Thanks.

Kelvin

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