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It is the same as the English word 'the' most of the time - but in some local dialects such as Orkney it's pronounce 'da' and sometimes spelled that way as well. But the Northern isles historically are as much Norse as English! The derivation may (speculatively) be from the Runic 'thorn' ð, which is roughly the same as 'th'

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Then there's Scottish Gaelic, where 'the' is 'An' as in An Comunn Gàidhealach, or The Gaelic Association.

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