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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Octopi is a hypercorrectism which doesn't make it wrong

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

A hypercorrection based on a misunderstanding of the Latin declension for the word, at that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neither are incorrect, that’s the point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to namedrop the technical term. Both are fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My favorite hypercorrection (a hyperforeignism, if you like) is "habañero," and really stressing the "ñ" when you say it.

Except it's just "habanero," plain ol' "n." The confusion is presumably due to "jalapeño" having an accent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you want a hyper anglizism: I'm German and after an interview, a colleague of mine talked about the candidates' "vibes". My boss didn't get it's English and once she did, she pronounced it like "wipes". b>p at the end of words is what German always does and v>w to make it sound English since German has the /v/ sound but not /w/. I don't think it's a common thing tho.