GRAMMAR GRIEVANCES

Someone Went Ballistic After A Broadcaster Said That The Queen Will Lay Next To Her Husband

Then someone else asked if the queen was a chicken

Janice Macdonald
5 min readSep 22, 2022

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Les oeufs (author’s photo)

Living in France, I struggle daily, not to slaughter the language of Moliere. I can almost see the woman in the epicerie cringe the moment I open the door and cheerily…

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Janice Macdonald

At 68, I started a new chapter in my life: I moved to France. Alone. It turned out to be quite the page-turner. Still is — even when age insists on a part.