dlthomas comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 02:23PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2011 06:08:22PM 1 point [-]

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

Comment author: dlthomas 18 November 2011 06:17:07PM * 1 point [-]

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.