Hyper-correction
A use of language that is non-standard but which the user believes to be standard – a kind of ultra-polite use of grammar used because it is considered by its user to be prestigious, refined or educated e.g. ‘She’s going to share it between you and I’ (which in standard grammar ‘should’ be ‘...you and me’); ‘Whom is it at the door?’; ‘He and myself went along.’ Women are said to ‘hypercorrect’ more than men (originally suggested by Lakoff 1975 who considered women speakers used hypercorrection more often than males).
