Who is Rosetta Stone?

[Mark A. Mandel]

Larry sez:
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I also say "Plymouth ROCK", so it's not just poor Rosetta I'm
slighting.  I think it's that these are more like "Fifth AVenue" or
"Raglan ROAD" than like "Forty-SECond Street", in that neither stones
nor rocks are semantically empty or unmarked enough to warrant the
stress retraction.
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Yeah, but it's "_the_ Rosetta Stone" (that's _highlighting_, not stress),
not *"Rosetta Stone". It isn't a landmark or a location, and the article is
a necessary (to me) part of its name, unlike your examples.

m a m

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