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The hippies and love-children and down-with-the-man types of the 60s and 70s have been in power for the last quarter century. In the Ukraine? Are you completel
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
The hippies and love-children and down-with-the-man types of the 60s and 70s have been in power for the last quarter century.
In the Ukraine? Are you completely mental?
- jedmeyers 13y agoThere is no "the" in Ukraine.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoThere used to be. I didn't realise till I just looked it up ( http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ukraine.html http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ukraine.html ) that they had officially dropped the 'the' after 1990, I thought either was correct.
- Mikeb85 13y agoWhile this is true, the word 'Ukraine' comes from a Slavic word for 'border' or 'region', so using 'the' in front of it makes sense when you consider the original meaning of the name and how English is spoken. All my Canadian-Ukrainian relatives say 'the Ukraine', even though as the proper name of a country you should just say 'Ukraine'.
- MrZongle2 13y agoWorldwide. There are certainly plenty of examples here in the U.S.