question for the New York Times

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Professor Hill,

The New York Times uses *Ukraine.* It stopped using the
definite article quite a while ago.  Perhaps you should address
your concerns to the editors of this newspaper.

Kind regards,

Natalia Pylypiuk
Universiy of Alberta

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On Oct 23, 2006, at 12:57 AM, Prof Steven P Hill wrote:

> P.S.   Some folks, myself included, still perceive the name "Ukraine"
> (lacking definite article) as sounding ungrammatical in English, as
> if spoken by a new expatriate from a land lacking the  definite and
> indefinite articles ("the," "a").  Reminds me of the Polish-American
> writer Jerzy Kosinski, who in his early writings in English often
> omitted those 2 articles, setting off alarms in the mind of his
> (uncredited) editors, who had quite a task to rewrite Kosinski in
> standard English.
>
> Best wishes to all,
> Steven P Hill,
> University of Illinois.
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