It's raining cats and dogs.
Frenchlish: Eeet is raining ze cat and ze dog

that everything he has written is a lie, including the "ands" and "the\ufffds." shouldnt that be that everything he has written is a lie, including the "ands" and THE "the\ufffds."

I'd guess it's a crap shoot as, "the birds and bees / the birds and the bees". Often enough the rhythm of a sequence determines options, though..

(Maybe I'd vote for "the the's" / but it's close)

Notice the common '3' items in such cutesy sentences, though (thought to be the max most homo-saps can retain in memory all at once?) -

"We shall fight them on the beaches.
We shall fight them in the streets.
We shall never surrender!" (Winnie natch)

Much more effective than,

"We shall fight them on the beaches, in the streets and, we shall ..."

No?

Nit above, the apostrophe posse might.. say that the plural of 'the' is 'thes' -- but I think common sense overrules here:
[thes] = huh? [the's] = well it ain't "the property belonging to 'the'" ... but it's clear-er with apostrophe.

My 2 shillings.


A.