Why do Americans go to the hospital, but the British go to hospital? Why do
we go to kindergarten, high school, and college, but not (unless you're
British) university?

Why do we get cancer, a headache, the flu?


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Or instruments: Why does Jamie play guitar but Paco plays the flute?
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> *From: *Jane Saral <[log in to unmask]>*
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> Sent: *Mon, Sep 12, 2011 23:40:59 GMT+00:00*
> Subject: *Re: Definite Article Question
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> Or what about Interstates?  We say The 5 and The 15 but 75, 85, and 95.
> Jane
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:19 PM, T. J. Ray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Someone asked why we supply "the" before some business names and not
>> before
>> others.  In this town we have restaurants with names such as Snack Shack,
>> Boure,
>> Downtown Grill, McDonald's.  Why would someone need to say "I'm going to
>> eat at
>> Boure" as opposed to "I'm dining at the Snack Shack"?
>>
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