hypercorrection

[sagehen]

L. Urdang writes:
>
>My remark about hypercorrectness was not aimed at sophisticated >observers
>like Horn, and all I meant was that some commentators regard >the change
>of "He gave it to Tom and me" to "He gave it to Tom and I" as
>>hypercorrection, when it is nothing more than correction. <
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????  How are you defining "correction" if it covers  changing something
generally considered "correct" into something generally considered
"incorrect"?
AM

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