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Subject:Re: Proper noun use From:Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 1995 01:07:31 -0500
Sonja,
If it's a software product, you'll probably want to drop the "the," (as in
"FrameMaker doesn't crash as often as Word"); if it's a hardware product,
you'd do better to keep the definite article (as in, "The new Maxtor just
arrived in the mail.")
...JS
>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.
