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Re: Naming Ships
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Jan 23, 19:53 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Jan 23, 19:53 -0800
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Jared Sherman wrote: > naval and marine tradition does not use it since a ship is a "person". I think this is a good insight into proper usage. A person's name does not usually include "the" before it. This also applies to Apple's Macintosh computer. Many magazines get it wrong, but since 1984 Apple referred to it by name, the startup screen simply said "Welcome to Macintosh", and so forth. Dan
