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Old 06-25-2018, 01:12 PM   #1293
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Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop View Post
Things are called "the NAME" when they are not a country, but a part of another country/empire. The Ukraine, the Sudetenland, the Midlands, the Pale, the Netherlands (in the Hapsburg Empire). When they become a country, they sometimes shed the "the" in order to assert their own nationhood, as Ukraine did.
For future reference, I live in "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" and one is not a true Boston legal pedant until one corrects someone's failure to capitalize the "T" in "The" in legal documents.
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