I wonder why some streets attract a definite article?

**Classic Jorge** · 02-23-2015, 01:07 PM

They consider it a pejorative, see?

Also, you might mean The Gambia. They do look the same though

**Rich** · 02-23-2015, 01:08 PM

this.

I know your game - you are a racist.

**Classic Jorge** · 02-23-2015, 01:11 PM

I do know Ukrainians f**king hate it though

**Luis Anaconda** · 02-23-2015, 01:17 PM

**Luis Anaconda** · 02-23-2015, 01:16 PM

Soviet days when it was titled as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - shortened to the Ukraine. The Ukrainian government actually formally requested that the "the" was no longer used in the early 90s. Mind you they probably formally requested that Russia stop trying to invade them so who takes notice of him.

Another weird one is our insistence on saying the Czech Republic when the people there just refer to it as Czech (well Ceska, obviously, now with accents removed)

**Classic Jorge** · 02-23-2015, 01:17 PM

**Luis Anaconda** · 02-23-2015, 01:18 PM

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**Berni** · 02-23-2015, 01:33 PM

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Yes, but The Ukraine isn't actually correct and they get a bit offended by it

So why do people say it, then? And why do you not care for what the people of the Gabon think about

I'm not sure they're bothered about Gambia or Ukraine tbh

In the case of Ukraine, the "the" is as you might expect a legacy of the

Wait, is the rest of this post behind a paywall?

Rupert

The Congo?

The Democractic Republic of or the Republic of?

They all piss in the same pot, surely?

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