Hyperforeignism

"Hyperforeignism" in a Sentence (3 examples)

When he wrote that he was going to “Hämbürg”, this was considered hyperforeignism because the German form is “Hamburg”.

For example, there is an awareness based on French that /dʒ/ is an English-type consonant, for which /ʒ/ is the ‘foreign’ equivalent. But when this leads to raj, Taj Mahal, mah-jongg, or adagio with /ʒ/ instead of /dʒ/ (although the languages of origin have affricates in these words), we have what might well be called a hyperforeignism. [boldfaced in source]

When she talked about the beautiful “freschi”, this was considered hyperforeignism because in English one says “frescoes”.

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