Americans refer to Ukraine as The Ukraine because the other proper nouns starting with the sound are prefixed with “the”: the United States, the Yukon Territory, the USSR. This mistake probably frustrates Ukrainians, whose language doesn’t waste space with articles like “the”!
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Explaining my origin dialect to Germans will now include this tidbit of info!! :D
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Learning how rooted in "traditional English" the the south is vs its stereotype has been one of my favorite deep dives since moving here. This is why we love you, Tim.
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