Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Hypercorrection
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===H-adding=== Some British accents, such as [[Cockney#Cockney speech|Cockney]], drop the initial ''h'' from words; e.g., ''have'' becomes ''{{'}}ave''. A hypercorrection associated with this is [[H-dropping#H-insertion|H-adding]], adding an initial ''h'' to a word which would not normally have one. An example of this can be found in the speech of the character [[Aloysius Parker|Parker]] in the [[marionette]] [[TV-series|TV series]] ''[[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]]'', e.g., "We'll 'ave the haristocrats 'ere soon" (from the episode "Vault of Death"). Parker's speech was based on a real person the creators encountered at a restaurant in [[Cookham]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Voiceover: Gerry Anderson |url=http://davidgraham.co/blog/?page_id=27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901173717/http://davidgraham.co/blog/?page_id=27 |archive-date=1 September 2013 |access-date=5 March 2013 |website=David Graham Official Site}}</ref> The same, for the same reason, is often heard when a person of Italian origins speaks English: "I'm ''h''angry ''h''at Francesco", "I'd like to ''h''eat something". This should not be expected to be consistent with the h-dropping common in the Italian accent, so the same person may say "an edge-og" instead of "a hedgehog" or just say it correctly.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Beauty of Italian-American "Broken" English β Language Analysis |date=2 January 2021 |url=https://hardcoreitalians.blog/2021/01/02/the-beauty-of-italian-american-broken-english-language-analysis/}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)