[Ads-l] From the "Grammar Geeks" site:

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> On that one, I'd wager on autopilot.  "The" is the most common English
> word by far, so it's possibly I kind of mental version of auto"correct",
> akin to the ones I'm always berating my mail program for.  Frequency
> rules!
>

The makes complete since, sense ;-) I see it most often on Facebook and
other sites where nobody has to worry about being graded.




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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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