"Word" words?

[Joel S. Berson]

MLB Baseball, NFL Football, and probably a half0-dozen others.

Joel

At 4/27/2008 11:13 AM, sagehen wrote:
>on 4/26/08 12:45 PM, Herb Stahlke at hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM wrote:
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> > And, of course, the Los Angeles Angels.
> >
> > Herb
> >
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>Some of these redundancies that involve foreign words naturalized into AE
>(e.g., "the El Nino," "the hoi polloi," "the Inuit"  et al.)can be forgiven
>on the ground that the article in the original language merges into a new,
>sometimes proper noun in English.  Not so with "HIV virus" & other similar
>ones based solely in English.
>AM
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