Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:56:31 -0800
From: Paul Brians <brians-AT-mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: Re: any idea


Vive La France!

I've always found the British "the Argentine" amusing, though they 
seem to have dropped that now.

And don't forget "The United States."

I don't see any imperialist agenda here, but when what we all knew as 
"the Ukraine" separated from Russia it was very insistent on being 
called "Ukraine" without the "the."
-- 
Paul Brians, Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians-AT-wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians


     --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---