[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in the pop culture

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see this all the time too, and I can't understand it, people don't
> say "I looked it up in the Encyclopedia Britannica", they say "I
> looked it up in Encyclopedia Britannica". It's really quite strange
> that they wouldn't use the same construct for wikipedia..........

But they would say "I looked it up in the encyclopaedia" - maybe they
think "wiki" is just some weird web term, so it would be like saying
"I looked it up in the weblopaedia" or something. Rather than
realising there is *one* Wikipedia. ?

Steve