'what everything' hypercorrection

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

It's not a hypercorrection but a blend: "for what all she went through" + "for everything she went through." "What all" (in standard English)  is itself apparently a blend, from e.g. "for what she went through" + "for all she went through."
 
Gerald Cohen

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Damien Hall
Sent: Tue 8/1/2006 1:02 PM
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Subject: 'what everything' hypercorrection



Speaking to a nurse who took my medical details this morning, I was struck by
something that she said once she had heard I was British (it doesn't take long)
and was telling me how she felt about Princess Diana:

'I really admired her, for what everything she went through.'

I took it to be a hypercorrection for *what all* = 'all that', 'everything
that', though in this case it's obviously difficult to rule out a false start
as well: 'for what ... [implied: for] everything she went through'.

I had never heard 'what everything' for 'what all' before.  Have other people?

Damien Hall
University of Pennsylvania

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