correctionist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From correction + -ist.
Noun
[edit]correctionist (plural correctionists)
- One who corrects something.
- 1941, Charlotte G. Wells, The Correction of Foreign Accent, page 34:
- 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.