hyperforeign

Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.

Adjective

Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.
- This relation is further complicated by the literate persons who know something of the foreign pronunciation and orthography. A speaker who knows the spelling jabot and the English form [ˈžɛbow] (for French [žabo]), may...
- Half-literate persons, who try, without proper knowledge, to pronounce a foreign language, are apt to coin hyper-foreign forms, a special kind of hyper-correction. - 1970, Joshua Blau, On Pseudo-Corrections in Some...
- [pp 309–10] Professor Blau combines his thorough grounding in linguistics with vast knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and related languages to alert scholars to the occurrence of a phenomenon he terms...
Hypernyms: hypercorrect

First use appears c. 1933 as hyper-foreign, and c. 1983 as hyperforeign. From hyper- + foreign. Compare hypercorrect and hypercorrection.