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swores on Oct 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Jeff Atwood works

But you also wouldn't call any one of them "the founder of the nation", it works because the inclusion of "fathers" already states that they are a group.

MattSayar on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

Of course you wouldn't say THE founder, you'd say A founder

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