[Magdalen] Creeping UK-ism?

[Joseph Cirou]

I wonder if the idiom results from the lack of an article in Latin?

Joe

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In addition to "in hospital" there's "in future." I wonder why we
> statesiders are fine with "in church" but not "in hospital."
> On Jul 27, 2015 10:09 AM, "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When I first started out in nursing in the 80s, I worked in a small town
> > hospital, and "in the unit" meant ICU, nothing else. Of course now,
> having
> > worked in huge hospitals, I'm familiar with the alphabet soup of MICU,
> > SICU, CCU, CICU, TCU, CVCU, NICU, PICU, and on and on ad nauseam.....
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 7/27/2015 10:47:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > Interesting, too, in that I find more and more people using the
> British
> > > (and Commonwealth) "in hospital* rather than *in the hospital" as  most
> > > Americans have been wont to say since I can remember. Of course  News
> > > reporters simply duck the issue by saying  "hospitalized".>>>>>
> > >
> > > True.  In any case better sounding than "Im Krankenhaus" in  German.
> > >
> > > Another totally new expression in the past 30 or so years is the  poor,
> > > overworked term, "unit".  There's the cardiac unit, the kidney unit,
> the
> > > orthopedic unit, and so on.  The advent of these specialized areas  and
> > > the lingo that goes with them happened while I was serving at the  Army
> > > Hospital in Frankfurt/M 1966-1970, and I remember the surprise at
> > > this development when I returned to private practice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David S.
> > >
> >
>