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Rex Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

The Hague or the Hague

0Mr Milosevic's body will go on display in the Serbian capital on Thursday, before he is buried in his home town of Pozarevac on Saturday, officials say. 02br
00He died in detention in The Hague last week while on trial for war crimes.02br
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00 He died in The Hague last week.02br
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00 Shouldn't it be ' He died in the Hague last week' ?02br
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00 1. The United States of America is home to many nationalities.02br
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00 2. Many nationalities live in the United States of America.02br
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00 I hope you would agree with my second sentence; I mean writing the lower case word 'the' should be fine.02br
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0Hi,02br
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00I would write 'He went to 01b00The02b00 Hague after he left 01b00the 02b00United States of America'.02br
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0 Clive02br
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00 I am a bit curious.02br
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00 He went to The Hague. Why do you write 'The' here? 02br
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00 Like he went to the United States of America, it should be he went to the Hague.0-
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0 The Hague (or Den Haag in Dutch) means "The Hedge". The use of "The" in "The Hague" is someway like that of "El" in "El Greco". Do you write "01b01i00el02i02b00 Greco" in svenska? 02br
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0 Thanks paco for the reply. You misunderstood me here.02br
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00 I would always write either 'The Hague' or 'the Hague'.02br
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00 Why should it be 'The Hague' in the middle of a sentence was my question?02br
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00 You touched on the way of Swedish writing. 02br
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0Hi Rex,02br
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01font00He went to The Hague. Why do you write 'The' here? 02br
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02font00I'm not sure if it's the official name, or whether it is just common usage, but it's a fact that 'The' is normally capitalized in 'The Hague', regardless of the position in the sentence.02br
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0I think we use the capital letter "T" for "The Hague" wherever it is used in a sentence, because The Hague (including the capital letter "T") is the proper name of a city just like New York (not "new York"). El Greco is a famous painter who was born in Greece but lived in Toledo in Spain. His real name was Domenicos Teotocopoulas, but everybody in Spain called him just "El Greco" (=The Greek).
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0 Paco02br
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01cite10Rex12cite10You understand Swedish too. That is great!12blockquote
10Jag tallar svenska litet, because I lived half a year in Stockholm when I was 20.02br
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0 The Russian word for table is 01font00Стол.02font02br
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00You should pronounce it 'stol'.02br
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00 In Cyrillic scripts, the English letter 's' represents by 'c' and the letter 'L' is '00л'.02br
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00 The word stool exists in English; it is a type of chair.02br
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0 Вы тоже говорите по русски! Хорошо!02br
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