Bob McC
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My daughter in law is half Ukrainian and gets very annoyed when she sees “the”.
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It’s an odd one because no one would say tHe France or the Poland. I wondered if the word erm…the…had crept in because it starts with a vowel but the India or the Uruguay never crops up anywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#:~:text=Ukraine is one of a,the" on 3 December 1991.
IIUC, the convention is that "The" is a preposition for a region, not a country. Use of "the" in conjunction with "Ukraine" harks back to pre-independence and when it was a member of the Soviet Union; quite emotive when you're fighting against that happening again.
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Bob McC told me off about it once, so I dun some reading.
Great explanation and makes sense in terms of the Pennies, the Cairngorms, the North etc but ....the East Anglia?
It’s an odd one because no one would say tHe France or the Poland. I wondered if the word erm…the…had crept in because it starts with a vowel but the India or the Uruguay never crops up anywhere.
Great explanation and makes sense in terms of the Pennies, the Cairngorms, the North etc but ....the East Anglia?
The Cotswolds; the Home Counties; The North West; The Black Country; The Peak District; [...]Great explanation and makes sense in terms of the Pennies, the Cairngorms, the North etc but ....the East Anglia?
The Cotswolds; the Home Counties; The North West; The Black Country; The Peak District; [...]
East Anglia looks like an odd one out.
Maybe it's because Ukraine hasn't been independent long enough. It seems that in English "the" is used to denote a region - i.e. a non-sovereign land.It’s an odd one because no one would say tHe France or the Poland. I wondered if the word erm…the…had crept in because it starts with a vowel but the India or the Uruguay never crops up anywhere.
The suggestion in the thread that the disarmed nuke was used as a decoy to help saturate Ukraine defenses makes some sense. If the nuke was gutted 'in the field' that strikes me as an unsafe improvisation. Whole warhead should have gone back to a proper facility. Maybe someone wasn't the fisile material for some reason, such as to sell, or to make a dirty bomb.Supposedly and emptied out nuclear weapons casing
Other than running out of conventional munitions - Why?
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1593518889186611203/photo/1
The suggestion in the thread that the disarmed nuke was used as a decoy to help saturate Ukraine defenses makes some sense. If the nuke was gutted 'in the field' that strikes me as an unsafe improvisation. Whole warhead should have gone back to a proper facility. Maybe someone wasn't the fisile material for some reason, such as to sell, or to make a dirty bomb.
My issue is with the complexity of removing a fissile core and then its subsequent handling.