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Re:Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap by Freak_NL on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:04AM (#14125017)
Interesting how this varies by language. Dutch doesn't have it (I've never learned it with a definite article), German and French still use it mostly as far as I can tell, and in English it is gradually disappearing.
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Re:Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap by dghf on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:31AM (#14125072)
French does it for every country (as far as I know): la France, l'Angleterre, les Etats-Unis. It's not something specific to Ukraine.
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Re:Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap by Rexxar on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:27PM (#14126310)
There are some exceptions : Israël, Taïwan, Cuba, Haïti
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Re:Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap by dghf on Sunday April 16, 2017 @04:31PM (#14127357)
That I did not know.

I found a page with a bunch more of them: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-cuba-article.2157...

No one seems to really know why.

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