Belated reply re: "the" wife

Kathleen Miller millerk at NYTIMES.COM
Tue Nov 9 20:38:02 UTC 1999


>I have said "in college" all my life.

>Bethany

As have I. I was "in college" for four years or "I went to the University
of Whatever" for four years. "At University" and a difference between "a
college" and "a university" were things I merely pointed out to my ESL
students but never employed in my own speech.

Katy



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