Until a few decades ago, Ukraine was almost always referred to as 'the Ukraine'. Then people started dropping the definite article, and now you almost never see it. Here's why.

26Publication date 1921 Topics English language -- Etymology Dictionaries Publisher London J. Murray Collection robarts; toronto; university_of_toronto Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto ...

The etymology of “incumbent” offers some impish opportunities, arising as it does from “to lie or rest upon” (consider the parallel in “recumbent”). An 18th-century cleric, living it up on the ...

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