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| Duke Groupie United States Joined 7025 days ago 76 posts - 79 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 12 22 September 2005 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
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I looked through this list of North American rivers. I only found a few that began in "the." In those cases, the river's name was also used to for the general area, ie. Little River, South Carolina.
I also looked through this list of U.S. lakes. Lakes beginning with "the" was rare and usually it was optional. Based on these observations, it seems that they follow the format: "The <adjective> Lake." Clear Lake seems to be an exception (if Clear is in fact an adjective). That is just my observations, so I could very well be wrong. Edited by Duke on 22 September 2005 at 10:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7109 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 10 of 12 23 September 2005 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
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FX, I was going to provide a long waffly post relating to this but it appears the BBC World Service has already saved me the job...
Take a look here. EDIT: However, since there are noted exceptions in the article, as others have already said case-by-case may well end up to be the only solution. Andy Edited by Andy E on 23 September 2005 at 2:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7382 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 12 23 September 2005 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much to all for shedding light on this most intricate aspect of English!
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| Duke Groupie United States Joined 7025 days ago 76 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 12 23 October 2005 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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Is the following sentence grammatically correct? It plays around with the "the" rule:
"Scientists at the Belmont Creek and Tigris River research stations determined that the Tigris River is much bigger than Belmont Creek." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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