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[Tdol]

thanks for answers )) Tdol -grammar books that georgian writers wrote,they aren't reliable ,i looked in Merphy and Michael Vince , if you know them ,but as i remember lakes weren't mentioned in these books.Anyway it's not logical we use definite article before oceans,seas,rivers,canals but not before lakes?

Articles with geographical words is an area that is strange and can seem illogical. Why do we use no article with most mountains but an article with mountain ranges?

[TheParser]

I guess I'll have to just learn exceptions

*** NOT A TEACHER ***


(1) As you know, the beautiful and orderly nation of Switzerland has Lake Geneva.

(2) I notice that in the 19th century and in the earlier part of the twentieth century,

most English writers referred to it as The Lake of Geneva.

(3) Perhaps this is an example of how English (and other languages?) tend to

simplify over the years. You can see this development in countries' names, for we

no longer refer to:

the Sudan, the Lebanon, the Ukraine, etc.