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Originally Posted by HarryT
Delighted to hear that they were able to sort things out for you Wes.
Literary trivia: why do British people "go to hospital" but Americans "go to THE hospital"? Just one of those quirks of language, I guess?
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It's so funny that you brought this up because it's something that I've been questioning for quite some time. I had decided that the difference, at least for me, would be that to "go to hospital" meant that you were actually going to be admitted to the hospital for some type of procedure while "going to the hospital" meant more of a visitation of someone in the hospital. All in all though, I think it's just the vagaries that exist within a single language that's used in different cultures. Even within the US words and phrases are used very differently from one region to another. Personally, I like it. I think language would be very boring if we all used it exactly the same way.
