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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by stut
The Gambia
The UAE
The Seychelles
and at one point, The Lebanon
A Usonian friend of mine told me that I sounded weird for saying "The" with Gambia, Lebanon and Yemen. And so I feel very self-conscious when referring to those countries now and I'm not really sure what to call them.
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