Comments on: Is It “the states” Or “The States”? http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/ The Travelzine for Today's Vagabond Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:51:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rene http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 Rene Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:25:06 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/#comment-1497 I vote for the States. Whenever I refer to my old hometown, San Francisco, I write it out as 'the City.' I don't think capitalizing "The" is necessary. I'm sure there's some grammatical rule that we should be abiding by, making my vote completely off base. Sheesh, even though I have a BA in English, I've forgotten all of that stuff. I vote for the States. Whenever I refer to my old hometown, San Francisco, I write it out as ‘the City.’ I don’t think capitalizing “The” is necessary. I’m sure there’s some grammatical rule that we should be abiding by, making my vote completely off base. Sheesh, even though I have a BA in English, I’ve forgotten all of that stuff.

]]> By: Mike http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 Mike Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:28:37 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/#comment-1463 Good call, Eric. I suspect you're right. Good call, Eric. I suspect you’re right.

]]> By: Eric http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1456 Eric Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:07:35 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/is-it-the-states-or-the-states/#comment-1456 Hmmm, I wondered about a similar issue a few weeks ago when writing stuff for the Travellerspoint wiki guide about the Netherlands (or is it The Netherlands?). I ended up deciding on "the Netherlands" because "the" isn't really part of the time. After all, if you were to sort a list of countries alphabetically, you would the Netherlands would come under N, not T, right? Same goes for the States. Seeing as it's officially the United States of America, I'd just drop the "United" and "of America" bits... leaving you with the States. Hmmm, I wondered about a similar issue a few weeks ago when writing stuff for the Travellerspoint wiki guide about the Netherlands (or is it The Netherlands?). I ended up deciding on “the Netherlands” because “the” isn’t really part of the time. After all, if you were to sort a list of countries alphabetically, you would the Netherlands would come under N, not T, right?

Same goes for the States. Seeing as it’s officially the United States of America, I’d just drop the “United” and “of America” bits… leaving you with the States.

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