Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 2:28 |
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:05:26 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> David Barrow scripsit:
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>> So Americans have 'in jail' but 'in the prison' for convicts?
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> No. We use "in jail" and "in prison" for those cases. We simply do
> not happen to have "in hospital" or "at university".
The USA does, however have "I was in college at the time", which I think
is comparable.
Paul