There have been quite a few posts on Language Log about which proper names are preceded by the, e.g. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2172
In the time of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, “Yosemite” was apparently “The Yosemite”
I’ve been curious as to when it dropped its article.
There have been quite a few posts on Language Log about which proper names are preceded by the, e.g. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2172
In the time of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, “Yosemite” was apparently “The Yosemite”
I’ve been curious as to when it dropped its article.