hyperforeign

adjective

Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as <!pronouncing the ‘j’ in Taj Mahal as rather than , or 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 [tejtetej], without the final [t].