You have to pick and choose your battles when you’re a grammatician, the Grammar Police, if you will.\u00a0 You can’t be that guy who corrects everyone’s spoken word – it’s one thing to correct the written word, particularly on business documents – but to stop someone in their speak and make a correction is tacky in most social circumstances.\u00a0 I went out on a limb the other day, however, when I couldn’t take for another second hearing chocolates be described as Belgium Chocolates.\u00a0 Belgium?\u00a0 No, no, no – it’s Belgian.\u00a0 The adjective, not the noun.\u00a0 I know it’s a picayune thing to disturb me, especially since in this instance the noun and adjective sounds so similar, but I needed to make this correction.<\/p>\n
Why?\u00a0 Do we eat Poland Sausage?\u00a0 Or France Fries?\u00a0 Or better yet, Belgium Waffles?\u00a0 Let’s stick to breakfast, do we eat France Toast?\u00a0 Or if you can’t get your hands on Belgium Waffles or France Toast, you can always settle for an England Muffin, right?\u00a0 And when all else fails, and you stop caring about sugar intake, look no further than everyone’s favorite continental breakfast treat, the Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You have to pick and choose your battles when you’re a grammatician, the Grammar Police, if you will.\u00a0 You can’t be that guy who corrects everyone’s spoken word – it’s one thing to correct the written word, particularly on business documents – but to stop someone in their speak and make a correction is tacky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n