Is there such a phenomenon as "undercorrection/hypocorrection?

[Jonathan Lighter]

How 'bout this student?  He used "thats" as an equivalent for "whose" applied to inanimate objects.  Wouldn't stop either.  He dropped the class.

Of course the fact that it makes perfect sense has no bearing whatever on English usage.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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Spoken by a black TV-show guest:

He aks me _whose, uh, who_ car was this.

-Wilson


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