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Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Furball on October 19, 2003, 02:17:29 PM

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1107918,00.html

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Godzilla on October 19, 2003, 02:18:53 PM

What A wimp, I had chest pains, and both arms go numb and didnt go to a docter ......hehe

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Replicant on October 19, 2003, 02:20:38 PM

Hope they keep him in Hospital... for good, that guys a lunatic! :mad:

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Godzilla on October 19, 2003, 02:23:30 PM

Why do the British call the hospital simply hospital?

For Instance, in America we would say "admitted to the hospital" instead of "admitted to hospital"

Same with Univeristies. Why is that?

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Tarmac on October 19, 2003, 02:31:34 PM

Sounds like he's ok.  Glad to hear it.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Godzilla on October 19, 2003, 08:53:24 PM

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Originally posted by GScholz
1. There is more than one hospital in the UK.

2. They did not specify any particular hospital.

3. Hospitals and Universities are institutions in the UK, not corporations.

4. The British still care about using correct English.

Do they say "I'm going to bank" instead of "going to the bank"

or "I was at stadium"  instead of "I was at the stadium"?

Well, Im going to bar.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 19, 2003, 09:51:42 PM

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Originally posted by GScholz
No, I don't think so. I think it has to do with institutions, i.e. "admitted to hospital" being and act, changing the status of the person, not just a destination.

Edit: They could say (as could you) "I'm going banking".

So according to your theory I have been saying it incorrectly when I exclaimed, "I am going to the Disneyland!"

No, wait, thats a corporation, not and institution....  hmmm, this is all so confusing.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Tilt on October 20, 2003, 07:44:28 AM

Its not an instutional context its a state of being.........

ie we can say "going to the hospital"if we are refering to a destination. (the hospital down the road)

we would say going to hospital if reffering to being hospitalised.

just as we could say going to the bed. (the bed in the front room) or going to bed  (to sleep).

equally going to court (attending a legal proceeding) or going to the court (going to a place where legal proceedings are held)

equally in education we drop the "the" from

school, college, university when reffering to the act of attending but use the the when refering to it as a destination.

hence "I went to the school to learn" could be simply replaced with "I went to school"

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 20, 2003, 07:56:35 AM

Okay, so you say, "I went to pub to get blotto."

Okay, I get it now.  I think.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: lord dolf vader on October 20, 2003, 10:51:09 AM

im bettin the limeys and the yankees have a problem with.

i went to get schooled.

sounds correct to a texan tho.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: FUNKED1 on October 20, 2003, 12:23:45 PM

Also in "headlinese", it's normal to drop articles for brevity.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Habu on October 20, 2003, 12:35:26 PM

Actually that is just a test that those of us who speak English use to identify who the smelly foreigners all are.

Kind of like the it's its thing.

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Jack55 on October 20, 2003, 01:53:15 PM

In the UK is "sch" in school pronounced the same way y'all pronounce it in schedule?

Title: Tony Blair admitted to hospital with chest pains
Post by: Furball on October 20, 2003, 01:56:42 PM

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Originally posted by Jack55
In the UK is "sch" in school pronounced the same way y'all pronounce it in schedule?

depends how you pronounce schedule.

(time for my pathetic attemt to show how its pronounced)
"sked-ule"
or
"shed-ule"

If you pronounce it "sked-ule" then its the same as school.