Correctionist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who corrects something.

    "The correction of barbaralalia (foreign accent) is in the strictest sense speech re-education, since the speech correctionist is aiding the foreign speaker to change one set of speech habits for another."

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"The correction of barbaralalia (foreign accent) is in the strictest sense speech re-education, since the speech correctionist is aiding the foreign speaker to change one set of speech habits for another."

Etymology

From correction + -ist.

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