Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dcdwest.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!benson
From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Use of THE - US vs Eng
Message-ID: <185@dcdwest.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 19:04:55 EST
Article-I.D.: dcdwest.185
Posted: Fri Apr 12 19:04:55 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 03:18:57 EST
References: <7200005@hp-pcd.UUCP>
Reply-To: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter benson)
Organization: ITT Defense Communications (San Diego)
Lines: 16
Summary: 

Some American dialects also use expressions such as:

	he graduated high school

which sounds similar to my ears to the 

	he was taken to hospital

phrasing.  Perhaps, these are simply idiomatic constructions
and are not open to logical analysis.
-- 
                                _
Peter Benson                    | ITT Defense Communications Division
(619)578-3080                   | 10060 Carroll Canyon Road
decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson    | San Diego, CA 92131
ucbvax!sdcsvax!dcdwest!benson   |