{"id":406,"date":"2007-06-06T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/hypercorrection\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:50:09","slug":"hypercorrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Hypercorrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypercorrection happens when people try to avoid making one type of &#8216;error&#8217; in speech or writing, but overcompensate and apply the corrections to too many words. For example, those who habitually &#8216;drop&#8217; their h&#8217;s sometimes add an h an just about any word beginning with a vowel when trying to speak &#8216;proper&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One case of hypercorrection that has become part of the language is the saying &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/eat-humble-pie.html\">to eat humble pie<\/a>&#8216;, meaning &#8216;to behave or be forced to behave humbly; to be humiliated&#8217;. To word humble in this saying comes from the word numbles, which means the offal of a deer. In the 14th century, a numble pie was one made from such offal. By the 17th century, a pie of this type was called &#8216;an umble pie&#8217;, which eventually acquired an initial h through hypercorrection and became &#8216;a humble pie&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Numbles comes from the Old French word <em>nombles<\/em> (loins), from the Latin <em>lumbulus<\/em> (little loin).<\/p>\n<p>Other words the have changed in a similar way to numbles include apron &#8211; originally napron, newt &#8211; originally ewt. This kind of change of word boundries, which is common in English, is called metanalysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypercorrection happens when people try to avoid making one type of &#8216;error&#8217; in speech or writing, but overcompensate and apply the corrections to too many words. For example, those who habitually &#8216;drop&#8217; their h&#8217;s sometimes add an h an just about any word beginning with a vowel when trying to speak &#8216;proper&#8217;. One case of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-pronunciation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}