My brain defaults to calling this sandwich the “East Coast Spicy Italian” instead of its actual name. Is that because the adjectives are out of order?

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My brain defaults to calling this sandwich the “East Coast Spicy Italian” instead of its actual name. Is that because the adjectives are out of order?

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English usage and grammar@lemmy.ca · 10 months ago

Going off of this sequence of adjectives, “East Coast” would be categorized as origin (7) and “spicy” would categorized as type (9), correct?

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