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Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 2:28
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:05:26 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> David Barrow scripsit: > >> So Americans have 'in jail' but 'in the prison' for convicts? > > 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