Country or country
That is the question.
quote:If you've taken a look at Donald Trump'sTwitter account lately, you may have noticed an interesting style choice. The president, for reasons best known to himself, has apparently taken to sometimes capitalizing the word "country" when tweeting about the US of A. (See this tweet from Friday, in which he claims that "Congressman Andy Biggs is doing a great job for Arizona and our Country!")
Well, someone must have called him out on it because on Friday morning, shortly after penning the Biggs tweet, Trump published a tweet confirming his departure from established grammar rules.
"When referring to the USA, I will always capitalize the word Country!" he wrote. (He has yet to explain his reasoning behind this.)
Donald J. Trump
#10004;
@realDonaldTrump
When referring to the USA, I will always capitalize the word Country!
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Naturally, social media had a field day with this, earning Trump's self-imposed grammar rule a Twitter Moment of its own. Some replies take issue with his claim that he "always" capitalizes "country." Screenshots of tweets?some sent as recently as Thursday?showed quite the opposite. Others were quick to point out that capitalizing the word "country," except at the beginning of a sentence or when it's used as a proper noun (i.e. in reference to the music genre "Country"), is grammatically incorrect.
But of course, as usual, the literal dictionary had the last word. "You run the country," tweeted Dictionary.com. "We still get to say how people capitalize it."
quote:If you've taken a look at Donald Trump'sTwitter account lately, you may have noticed an interesting style choice. The president, for reasons best known to himself, has apparently taken to sometimes capitalizing the word "country" when tweeting about the US of A. (See this tweet from Friday, in which he claims that "Congressman Andy Biggs is doing a great job for Arizona and our Country!")
Well, someone must have called him out on it because on Friday morning, shortly after penning the Biggs tweet, Trump published a tweet confirming his departure from established grammar rules.
"When referring to the USA, I will always capitalize the word Country!" he wrote. (He has yet to explain his reasoning behind this.)
Donald J. Trump
#10004;
@realDonaldTrump
When referring to the USA, I will always capitalize the word Country!
7:04 AM - Oct 19, 2018
94.5K
44.2K people are talking about this
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Naturally, social media had a field day with this, earning Trump's self-imposed grammar rule a Twitter Moment of its own. Some replies take issue with his claim that he "always" capitalizes "country." Screenshots of tweets?some sent as recently as Thursday?showed quite the opposite. Others were quick to point out that capitalizing the word "country," except at the beginning of a sentence or when it's used as a proper noun (i.e. in reference to the music genre "Country"), is grammatically incorrect.
But of course, as usual, the literal dictionary had the last word. "You run the country," tweeted Dictionary.com. "We still get to say how people capitalize it."
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No they don't. Taze is now part of the lexicon and Dicitionary.com had nothing to do with it.
I'll bet it catches on!
Country!0 -
Trump knows the difference between there, their, and they're. So he's leagues ahead of most other folks in this country. Or Country. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Trump knows the difference between there, their, and they're. So he's leagues ahead of most other folks in this country. Or Country.
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I'm kind of with him. When I talk about this Country its a Cap. But if I'm talking about a country its not. 0 -
People in this country/Country have wayyyyy too much spare time on their hands if they can afford to spend it arguing on (Twit)ter over something like this.
What the hell is wrong with so called 'adults' anymore?0 -
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
I'm kind of with him. When I talk about this Country its a Cap. But if I'm talking about a country its not.
Yes, it shows respect for Our Country, not country music, or some sheethole country.
By capitalizing it makes it a proper noun, so screw the alleged dingbats at dickshonairy.putz
They think marriage is between a man and a man so what do they know?
And these same morons thing african American is a thing. There is no Africa in any of the Americas.
And spell checker says lower case african is wrong, but it is not, because it is an adjective at that point. A wrong adjective no less.0 -
God and Country.
Family always.0 -
I have always capitalized Country when I write about the United States. Because it is the name that I give United States when I write about her.
Just like Mom... She is also known as by her name her parents gave her. But she's always Mom to me
And dictionary.com can kiss my ass if they think they're going to change it... They think they can tell me what I can capitalize what I can't capitalize. Well I have news for them... My Country is a free country. and nobody's going to take my freedom of expression away. Not even them...and if they want to try, they better bring an army with them, because that's what it's going to take. Because the only way anybody is going to take my freedom of expression away is by killing me, But they better expect some collateral damage in the process of killing me0 -
Yes, I always capitalize "Country," when writing about the United States of America.
It is a Respect, thing.0
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