Ukraine with definite article?

[Max Pyziur]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

> Max Pyziur wrote:
>

[...]

> Agreed, with the caveat that generics must be separate words to qualify.
> Thus: "Eng-land," "Den-mark," "Nor-way" but "the British Isles."
>
> I don't know how to account for "the Netherlands" except to speculate
> that perhaps plurals work differently.

Probably those same set of roolez dat makes it "Duh Bronx".

;-)

Seriously, since "The Netherlands" appears to describe something like
"Those Low-lying Lands over there", there then is some sort of carryover.

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MP
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