On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
(Perhaps Britannica gets it because "Encyclopedia" is a common word - we'd feel silly with the sentence "I looked it up in Encyclopedia Britannica", because "I looked it up in encyclopedia" would itself be wrong)
I don't have a problem with the sentence "I looked it up in Encyclopedia Britannica". In fact, after consideration, I'd say adding in "the" would be technically incorrect. Looking at britannica.com, EB consistently refers to itself without "the" in the beginning.
I'm sure there are quite a few other examples. The only one that comes to mind, though, is "Best Damn Sports Show Period", and that one is treated inconsistently even by the official websites.