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Originally Posted by RWood
As an example, to put the works of Damon Runyon into standard English would kill the entire work.
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This is most certainly the case, as Mr. Runyon was a character who truly knew what time it was when it came to capturing the language-type patterns of the people about whom he typically wrote.
Too bad his work is not PD yet.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Only in a few very specific instances; eg we "go to hospital" rather than "go to the hospital" and similarly with "church", but not with most other nouns.
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Oh, we "go to church" over here too, "the church" would refer to the building itself, the collective group of congregants as a body, or the organization, in the cases of an organized church, such as the Catholic or Episcopalian Churches -- probably because we never really had just one church over here.
What I don't get is those odd folks out West who insist on "the-ing" perfectly good freeways: "the 101," "the 280," instead of just "101" and "280."
