Who is Rosetta Stone?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Larry Horn asks:

> OK, but is it "the RoSETta Stone" or "the Rosetta STONE"?

for me, clearly the former.  it's like "the BRILL Building" (not "the
Brill BUILDing").

as far as i know, the arthrous/anarthrous (i *so* rarely get to use
those wonderful terms) choice is pretty much independent of the
forestress/afterstress choice.

arnold

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