Ugh, this annoys me so much.
It’s THE hospital, okay? THE hospital!
Leaving off the article is even more annoying than the propensity to stick extraneous “U”s into words where there is no phonetic reason to do so.
/end rant
I could not care less about the baby. Any news about the royals is wasted airspace, IMO...
In England - which you might recall, is where the English language is from - they say “in hospital” and many words that we spell with “or” they spell with “our”. This is the country and culture that gave us Shakespeare and the King James translation of the bible - and even our Declaration of Independence and our constitution comes from English writing and philosophy.
Hon, get a coffee before you offend out Brit cousins any more egregiously.
I am excited having seen the births of two other future Kings.
And I love the Queen!
How about “ in school”? The ‘in hospital’ thing bothered me till I realized we use that wording for “in school”. We don’t say “our kids are ‘ in the school today’. Tis a puzzlement.
I’ve often wondered why Brits say “to hospital.” But we say, “She went to school,” not “she went to THE school.”