> So your spell checker doesn't recognise/ize that it's "hoi polloi", nor does
> your grammar checker know that it's "hoi polloi" and not "the hoi polloi"
Ah, I'm just in the middle of writing a comment about "the hoi polloi"
-vs- "hoi polloi", so I'll tag onto yours.
I had exactly the same argument with someone a while ago -- is it like
"ATM machine", etc? It's not as clear, because redundant words next to
acronyms aren't quite the same; similarly, "the algebra test" is also
redundant, but algebra has had the "al" folded into the main word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi#Questions_on_usage
talks about this -- the best equivalent is "I'd like my beef sandwich
with au jus"..
Poking around on wikipedia, I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misleading_place_names
For instance, there's an "Oxford" in Ohio -- and it's the home of
Miami U (?!)
-- dan
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