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Re: Countries with needless definite article.



George Scithers wrote:
Case in point: what was once called the Spanith Netherlands and is now caled Belgium is an uneasy combination of Flemish and Walloons --
Yes, it happened in Europe too. Witness the former Yugoslavia or
Czechoslovakia.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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