Ukraine with definite article?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Max Pyziur wrote:

> 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".
> ;-)

Discussion of various theories at
<http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v40/mj_v40i27.html>.

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

Makes sense to me. A lot of linguistic rules are traditions left over
from forgotten days.

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Paul B. Gallagher
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