If you were to pick out a random letter from “the” there would be a 1/3 chance that you’d pick either “t”, “h”, or “e”
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A wild use of the word "the".
found in the nutritional information of a can of "Campbell's Chunky Creamy Chicken & Dumplings".
1.
denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge.
"what's the matter?"
used to refer to a person, place, or thing that is unique.
"the Queen"
INFORMAL•ARCHAIC
denoting a disease or affliction.
"I've got the flu"
(with a unit of time) the present; the current.
"dish of the day"
INFORMAL
used instead of a possessive to refer to someone with whom the speaker or person addressed is associated.
"I'm meeting the boss"
used with a surname to refer to a family or married couple.
"the Johnsons were not wealthy"
used before the surname of the chief of a Scottish or Irish clan.
"the O'Donoghue"
2.
used to point forward to a following qualifying or defining clause or phrase.
"the fuss that he made of her"
(chiefly with rulers and family members with the same name) used after a name to qualify it.
"George the Sixth"
These are the first 2 definitions and the examples associated with the definitions of the word "the" on google's dictionary.
there are 0 mentions of the word "the" in the actual meat of this webpage:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_(%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)
this is because this is the russian wikipedia article for the apology of Socrates.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char word[] = "the";
printf("%s\n", word);
return 0;
}
this is the c code to save the string "the" in a character array "word", print out the character array "word" with a new line, and to exit with an exit code of 0. notice how it does not contain the word "the" other than in the string.
"the" is the most used word in English, and is used more frequently than "of", by a ratio of 3:2 (the:of)
"the" is an article, though articles are technically adjectives, so "the" is also an adjective