Timeline for “in US English” vs "in the US English"
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| Oct 30, 2017 at 7:59 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Student Jazz is an uncountable noun, so it's always "British jazz" rather than "the British jazz". The difficulty being discussed above is because prime minister is a countable noun and also a job title. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 3:05 | comment | added | Student | @DavidRicherby I love this The Heroes of British Jazz. Should you have an explanation for me; a Non Native Speaker :) | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 9:33 | comment | added | David Richerby | @hvd Hmm. "was" seems different somehow. "Tony Blair was [British] prime minister from 1997 to 2007" sounds natural to me, with or without "British", but "Theresa May is [British] prime minister" sounds completely wrong. I have no explanation for this. (~40yo British native speaker, if that makes any difference.) | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 5:39 | comment | added | hvd | @DavidRicherby You can repeat the search with former PM names, with "is" changed tot "was", with "British" removed, to get some more results, still relevant. I cannot see any logic that explains why "the" would be optional either. Perhaps I should ask this as a new question. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 2:51 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | In Russia, British Prime Minister is you! | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 1:37 | comment | added | Stephen S |
@hvd "Theresa May is British prime minister." just sounds horrible, to me at least.
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 23:31 | comment | added | David Richerby | @hvd "Theresa May is British Prime Minister" sounds completely wrong to me. Google gives three hits for it (in quotes) but it only gives seven for the version with "the", so that doesn't say a lot. | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 21:53 | comment | added | Xenson | "in the US English" is using US as an adjective of the noun English. You wouldn't say "in the English" in this case. With 'the' it looks weird and sounds weird. | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 21:02 | comment | added | hvd | @DavidRicherby This answer isn't good reasoning, but you picked an iffy example: if you switch the order, you get "Theresa May is British prime minister." This does get used in practice. So does "Theresa May is the British prime minister." | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | David Richerby | This isn't good reasoning. "The British prime minister" is a unique object but you cant say "British prime minister is Theresa May." | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | Jason S | Really? Usually the word "the" is used as an alternative to "a" (definite vs. indefinite article). The book refers to some particular well-known book, whereas a book refers to an indefinite book. (I guess it makes sense for proper nouns though, like "the US Constitution", you need "the" because US is effectively an adjective and if you dropped it you'd need to say "the constitution") | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 3:20 | history | answered | acloudrift | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
