dhbailey wrote:
Wow, whenever I tune in to a football game, I never hear "the" in
front of "Ohio State University" -- It's always "The buckeyes of Ohio
State" or "Ohio State University takes on Purdue in today's NCAA Game
of the Week."
But I agree that tradition and not grammar rules the day with this stuff.
And interestingly enough, in looking on CDs, artists are often listed
without "the" as in "Emerson String Quartet Plays Debussy String
Quartet" but when it's announced on the radio, most of the time I hear
"the" used, as in "Now we'll play the String Quartet by Debussy,
featuring the Emerson String Quartet."
Maybe that's why there's never been an "English Academy" to try to
regulate the language -- it's been too hopeless from the start! :-)
It may be the time to change subject. Are there any of the users of
the Finale here?
(Just the joke on my part. Hope the understanding is present in reader )
Actually, we used to have an Executive Director who used to try hard to
get us listed and announced all the time as "_The_ Louisville
Orchestra." It was quite important to him. He's a gardener now (true).
The Raymond Horton
The Bass Trombonist
Louisville Orchestra
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