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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <10js2j4$2p1ce$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >On 2026-01-09 21:07:12 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:   
   >>   
   >> Pearls Before Swine: The English   
   >>     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/01/09   
   >>   
   >> Rat is right, the Brits economize too much in their language.   
   >>   
   >> Lynn   
   >   
   >You mean "economise" ... and English *is* "their" language (as the   
   >comic strip says).  :-p   
   >   
      
   I read somewhere that we get the THE in "he's in the hospital"   
   and other inclusions of the definite article by way of the Irish, or   
   Irish immigrants anyway.   
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