On Feb 2, 2020, at 1:18 PM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > "Whom should provide the certificate?" is not "corrected", it's *wrong*.
Which is why he said “hyper-corrected.” “Linguistic hypercorrection occurs when a real or imagined grammatical rule is applied in an inappropriate context, so that an attempt to be "correct" leads to an incorrect result.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
