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hyper-foreign

hyper-foreign is the alternative form of hyperforeign.

Meaning of hyperforeign

Adjective

hyperforeign (not comparable)

  1. Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.
    • This relation is further complicated by the literate persons who know something of the foreign pronunciation and orthography. A speaker who knows the spelling jabot and the English form [ˈžɛbow] (for French [žabo]), may revise tête-à-tête [ˈtejteˌtejt] (from French [tɛ:t a tɛːt]) to a hyper-foreign...1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 449

Questions about hyper-foreign

What is hyper-foreign the alternative form of?
Hyper-foreign is the alternative form of hyperforeign.

Words near hyper-foreign in the dictionary

  1. hyper-empathetic
  2. hyper-empathy
  3. hyper-empirical
  4. hyper-explosion
  5. hyper-explosions
  6. hyper-foreign
  7. hyper-foreignism
  8. hyper-foreignisms
  9. hyper-foreignization
  10. hyper-green
  11. hyper-injunction

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