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:
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 idiom "looking for a needle in a haystack" does not contain the word "the"
if you tried to compile c containing only the word "the" you would get an error:
the
^~~"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