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Chained_bear, you're making my left eye twitch.

Really? It used to drive me crazy too. Now I think it's teh alsome.

I mean, the is so underused in the English language, we need to come with more uses for it. Now, teh, that word drives me crazy.

The *other* usage of 'the' is as 'the adverbial the' (or at any rate that's what Fowler calls it: it modifies adjectives), as in 'the more the merrier': i.e. 'by so much more numerous, by that much merrier'.

As in: "the google, "checking the email", "going to the Safeway store", etc.

I'm not proud of this.