"the" before country name

Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Mon May 12 11:17:47 UTC 2008


I could be behind the times, but last time I was aware, the British
still said "the Palestine".
dh


The Netherlands and (formerly) the Ukraine are the only examples of country
names with "the" that come to mind.
John Baker

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