On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > The latter sounds more natural to me, even though "the" doesn't really > appear to be applicable. We don't say "the sqlite," "the Windows," or "the > Mac," so why does "the Fossil SCM" feel more intuitive to me? (And yet we > do say "the Window Manager.") > > One says either "Fossil" or "the Fossil SCM". In uniqueness qualifier "the" is required in the second case because the noun is "SCM" there exists multiple SCMs, of which "Fossil" is only one. In the first case, you are referring to the unique entity directly and so the uniqueness qualifier "the" is not allowed, in English.
We need to get you back to Texas for a few months, Stephan ;-) -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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