Merry Christmas, Yule/Winter Solstice, Newtonsday!

From: SP <spedraja_at_ono.com>
Date: Thu Dec 25 11:25:27 2003

Yes, this is the formal explain :-)
I couldn't do better than your explain, Nico.

Cheers

Sergio

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From: "Nico de Jong" <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
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>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 - 11:25:27 GMT