Timeline for New Oxford American Dictionary describes "the" as an adjective
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| Jan 31, 2011 at 17:24 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Which is roughly the point I was going to make: if you have a meagre classification of words (or anything else, for that matter) you need to shoe-horn everything into one of your classes even if they don't fit. This often happens when people ask "Which [traditional part of speech] is "[word]", and the only coherent (though disallowed) answer is "none of them". I've never come across a classification of parts of speech which would lump articles into "adjective", but I can certainly conceive of one. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 19:26 | history | answered | Chris | CC BY-SA 2.5 |