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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Use of THE - US vs Eng (One rule)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 12:57:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 12:57:34 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In addition to dropping the "the" in phrases such as "going to
hospital", I noticed that the British also add a "the" in some
phrases.  The one that comes to mind now is something like "I will
see you on THE Monday".  (I seem to think that there are more examples
of this kind of thing, but it's been almost two years since the last
time I was in England.)

Another thing I noticed which was related to the hospital context was
that they say "I'm going to surgery" when we would say "I'm going to
the doctor".
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Liz Allen    U of Maryland   ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz   liz@tove.ARPA

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God
 is light; in him there is no darkness at all" -- 1 John 1:5