Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

David J. Peterson wrote:

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> Anyway, this is classic John McWhorter.  Treat it about as
> seriously as you would an opinion of mine on English soccer
> (there's a team called "the United", isn't there...?).

Well, there's obviously no such thing as English soccer ;-)

I know this is an irrelevance (but I love to answer a rhetorical
question), but when people refer to 'United', they probably mean
Manchester United.  But the names of English football clubs generally goes -

"(Name of town), (United/City/Town/Rangers/Wanderers), F.C."

With the second bit being optional

There are exceptions.  Arsenal, for example.