Annoyances

...but I'll give it a go, with the caveat that I honestly don't know what I'm talking about.When you carmelize sugar, you brown it to the point that you actually change it from one form to another. Oxidation occurs, so that it actually amounts to a chemical change. So my guess is that when the word 'carmelized' appears on a menu, it means 'browned to the point of a complete, substantive change'.

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"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005

Faith writes:

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Never heard that term before but glad to see the apostrophe offense is noticed.

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I've noticed it too, though not nearly as often as I used to. But of course we don't have as many small, local grocers today as we did a decade or so ago, probably thanks to Wal*Mart.Wal*Mart itself is in dire need of a visit from the grammar police, but not for abusing the apostrophe; rather, it seems that every Wal*Mart store I've ever visited confuses 'less' with 'fewer'. The two words aren't interchangeable.Incidentally, I agree with you about phonics. It was a system that worked, apparently better than anything that's been devised since.

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"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005