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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Why we call America as THE America and India as india
  

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Anonymous Why do we call America as THE America We don't.

  • Anonymous Why do we call America as THE America We don't.
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AnonymousWhy do we call America as THE America
We don't.
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The United States of America (or the US)
America

The Republic of India
India
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GOOGLE IT.
62 milion results for "The Republic of India"
35 milion results for "The America"
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MIG35 milion results for "The America"
Did you look at any of them to see if they were relevant to this thread? I got 1.4 million hits for 'the amerrica' and 1,800 for 'the ammerrica". This didn't prove anything, except that the number of google hits is usually no guide to acceptable English.
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MIGGOOGLE IT.62 milion results for "The Republic of India"35 milion results for "The America"
There are millions of hits for "The India" as well.

The hits you get for "The America" and "The India" almost all go on to another noun, showing that 'America' and 'India' are being used as modifiers. "The" applies to the following noun, not to 'America' or
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HI Emotion: smile .
thank you fivejedjon and CalifJim .
when you want to search a word or sentence in google , if you put it in double com

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