For a good while now, it has annoyed me that (among other things) the BBC never use the proper adjectives for countries. (The proper name for them escapes me for the moment).
At any given time on the front page of their News section, they use the name of the country instead.
Today's example:
"Long jail terms for key Belarus opposition pair"
"Appeal for women convicted of Cyprus gang rape lie"
Sorry rather morbid topics.
Actually, I was proved wrong in a way by looking now, as I found the words French, Irish, Danish and Finnish on today's front page.
But anywhere more exotic and they revert to the method a six-year-old would use. I invariably see "Belgium" instead of Belgian, "India" instead of Indian, Greece instead of Greek.
I seem to be alone in this, unless someone else has pointed it out and they have actually used the grown up terms Danish, French etc today as a first step.
Can anyone remember what the correct term is for these adjectives ("proper adjectives"? Like proper nouns) and does it bother anyone else?
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