Careful with that "the", it's got political connotations. The BBC has a
good description of the issue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233844


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/12/2013 10:55 AM, glen wrote:
> > ... in the Ukraine is ...
>
> I don't know where I picked that up... At first, I thought it was
> because we say "the US".  But that can't be it, since I don't say "the
> China" or "the Kansas".  I suspect it's going to be as difficult to
> train that out of me as it is to try to use "data are".
>
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