Timeline for Why use "the" for oceans/seas/rivers etc. but not lakes?
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| Oct 16, 2017 at 11:12 | comment | added | Vasya Sheromova | May be I did use a wrong term. But I am afraid I fail to conceive what's wrong with "the English language "coined" by a group of people". I meant to say that people living in England used a signal system that became later a language, and those people changed the language by using it. | |
| Oct 16, 2017 at 11:07 | comment | added | Vasya Sheromova | As for lakes and rivers, it only means that for some reason a dialect spoken by people, knowing more rivers than lakes, became more prevailing. There could have been many reasons, like the extinction of the tribe, knowing more lakes than rivers, or it could have happened that a written artifact of the "river" people became very popular along with the use of "the" with rivers. | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 5:59 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | And the English language wasn't "coined" by a group of people, where is your reference that supports this idea? | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 5:58 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | There are more rivers than lakes in the UK. Loch Ness in Scotland is pretty famous for the Scots so why isn't there the article? Likewise, I'm pretty certain the Scots all knew about Ben Nevis, (it's hard to miss) but that doesn't have an article. | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 5:42 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Oct 6, 2017 at 5:24 | history | answered | Vasya Sheromova | CC BY-SA 3.0 |