Re: Third report on Koni - some grammar

Arthaey Angosii scripsit:

> >prior to her taking Linguistics and Spanish at uni.
>
> Is this an example of British
> English requiring less nouns to use an article?  My Linguistics 101 class
> claimed that this existed.  In AmE, I would say "at an uni(versity)" (I'd
> say the full word, too, or else use "college").
Yes, it is.  The most famous example is "in hospital" (vs. AmE "in the
hospital", which would suggest a specific hospital to a non-American ear).
AmE does have "in jail" and "in/at college", however.

AndR, this belongs with the short list of true syntactic differences.

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