http://wiki.osiris-web.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3APrid_of_Ankh-Morpork Talk:Prid of Ankh-Morpork - Revision history 2026-04-12T08:13:04Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.1 http://wiki.osiris-web.com/index.php?title=Talk:Prid_of_Ankh-Morpork&diff=17668&oldid=prev Old Dickens: definite article 2013-10-11T22:48:49Z <p>definite article</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>While sea-faring people like to omit the definite article before ships&#039; names, most use it to distinguish, e.g., &#039;&#039;the&#039;&#039; Queen Mary from the old bat herself. Now see elsewhere in the book: &quot;we haven&#039;t had any warships since &#039;&#039;&#039;the&#039;&#039;&#039; Mary-Jane sank four hundred years ago&quot; and then [[Mary-Jane]] where the title conforms but the body contains &quot;the H.A.M.M.S. Mary-Jane&quot;, which is more seriously wrong. (Although I&#039;m not sure where H.A.M.M.S. comes from or what it stands for.)<br /> <br /> Much discussion [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=605089 here].&lt;BR&gt;<br /> {{wp|Naming conventions (ships)|Wikipedia}} is ambivalent on the use of the article where there is no other prefix.&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> In a title, however, &quot;The&quot; should be avoided whenever possible, along with ranks, honorifics et al. <br /> --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:48, 11 October 2013 (GMT)</div> Old Dickens