Merry Christmas, Yule/Winter Solstice, Newtonsday!

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
Date: Thu Dec 25 07:38:39 2003

>Subject: Re: Merry Christmas, Yule/Winter Solstice, Newtonsday!


>"Desde Espa?a" is "from Spain", literally.

> To use "from the Spain" is more formal, like "from the USA"
> or "from the Germany". But curiously, you can see more commonly
> "from the USA" than "from the Germany" or "from the Australia"
> or "from the Italy".

That is not so strange, as "from the USA" is literally "from the United
_States_", i.e. plural form.
Neither "from the Germany" nor the others qualify as plural.
Exception: "from the Netherlands", but this is because Netherlands means
"low countries" (again : plural)
Nico
Received on Thu Dec 25 2003 - 07:38:39 GMT