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Mr Whippy · 10-06-2011, 02:09 PM

It depends on whether you ask about British English or English English.

I'm British but not English -I'm from Scotland- and I would probably say first, 'He's gone to the hospital'. I could also say 'He's gone to hospital', but that's not a likely way of speaking for me. It all depends on so many things.

There are many varieties of English round the world. All are correct in context. All.

There is a huge confusion about British and English. They don't have to mean identically the same thing, tho' many English people don't know this, even if they have been British since 1603, or if you wish, since 1707. They refer to themselves as English, and wrongly speak of the English Queen, English tea and so on. All wrong.

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Mr Whippy Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 300008 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: kindle	It depends on whether you ask about British English or English English. I'm British but not English -I'm from Scotland- and I would probably say first, 'He's gone to the hospital'. I could also say 'He's gone to hospital', but that's not a likely way of speaking for me. It all depends on so many things. There are many varieties of English round the world. All are correct in context. All. There is a huge confusion about British and English. They don't have to mean identically the same thing, tho' many English people don't know this, even if they have been British since 1603, or if you wish, since 1707. They refer to themselves as English, and wrongly speak of the English Queen, English tea and so on. All wrong. Last edited by Mr Whippy; 10-06-2011 at 02:12 PM.