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Subject:Re: Proper noun use From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 23 Mar 1995 21:38:57 -0800
Sonja Draeger said:
> "X Y Z can do some amazing stuff."
> "The X Y Z can do some amazing stuff."
> It really gets down to if there should be a *the* before a proper noun. At
first
> it may seem a simple question, but trying it with lots of proper nouns we are
no
> longer sure what to write.
I grapple with this on a daily basis in the translation work I do. I
tend to put 'the XYZ'.
