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Notes & asides.(Letter to the Editor)
* Dear Mr. Buckley: Regarding Notes & Asides in the Sept. 29 issue: I respectfully take issue with Mr. William J. McNamara's suggestion that we should never refer to the Ukraine as "the Ukraine." The world "Ukraine" means "the frontier" in both Ukrainian and Russian. The only reason the Russians and Ukrainians don't use a definite article with the name of the country is that--like the Finns, the ancient Romans, and many others--they manage to get by without having an equivalent for "the" or "a" in their languages.
While Ukraine is not listed in my World Almanacas "The Ukraine" (as opposed to, say, "The Gambia" or "The Bahamas"), it makes as much sense to say "the Ukraine" as it does to say "the United States" or "the United Kingdom," even though the latter are listed as "United States of America" and "United Kingdom" in the almanac. One also says "the Volga" and "the Don" rivers, even though the article-lacking Slavs say just "Volga" and "Don" in their respective languages.
Yours, Patrick M. Dempsey M.A., Linguistics Granada Hills, Calif.
Dear Mr. Dempsey: Nicely done.
Thanks, WFB
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Source: HighBeam Research, Notes & asides.(Letter to the Editor)