 Poster: A snowHead
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OK this has always driven me a bit nuts but perhaps I am sad and wrong.
Why do people say "once you arrive in resort" or "it can be arranged at resort" or "getting to resort"
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"in the resort"
Why do people drop "the" ?
Any pedants care to enlighten me?
Yours, with clearly too much time on her hands as she's NOT in resort
M
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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firebug, feck knows! Or, as my sister says, 'Ask Mr Feck - he knows!' 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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firebug, no, you're not sad or wrong - it annoys me too, as does 'in store' 
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I always assumed it was along the lines of "at home", "in hospital", "on holiday" and plenty of other occasions where the definite article is not used. I can't say any of them trouble me and I am the sort of person who is kept awake at night by spurious apostrophes.
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I get annoyed by "Baby". "Baby does this" etc. Why not "the" baby? It's a human being ffs. Rant over! 
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Its the rep's equivalent of the redundant estate agent "yourselves":
"The period features make this the ideal property for yourselves" - best delivered wearing a risible tie knot and a laughable spikey haircut.
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I am the sort of person who is kept awake at night by spurious apostrophes.
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I imagine the apostrophes, giant, faint and shadowy, surrounding the bed...
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fatbob, I think that's why it bugs me a bit - it's slightly corporate-sounding rep-speak that has wormed its way into regular use.
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I guess it's down to how the word is being used? The word resort is being used as a proper noun in place of the actual name of the resort.
Just my guess anyway, hated English, dropped the subject at school as soon as I could.
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you do realise I aint getting the last 5 seconds of my life back dont you?? 
maybe they're all northern - down pit, down job club
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Sitter, very good suggestion - you shouldn't have dropped English. So it's short for "when you're in Resort X".
Barry; don't ignore pedant alerts. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes barry, don't ignore pedants, they hear voices and own sharp pointy things . . . or more frequently, lots of cats . . . 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Masque,
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pedants, they hear voices and own sharp pointy things . . . or more frequently, lots of cats .
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No, no (apart from the usual domestic items and ski poles) and NO! 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sitter, like pam w I support your fine explanation.
firebug, do you accept this?
If so we can put this to bed.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Oh no, if you use 'city' in place of London you still say going into the city! Damn, it's all fallen through. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ooooo i like it i like it!
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| barry wrote: |
you do realise I aint getting the last 5 seconds of my life back dont you??
maybe they're all northern - down pit, down job club |
No, entirely different all good northern nouns have a silent t'.
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maybe they're all northern - down pit, down job club
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Eh??
People "up here" always pronounce "the" - as they do in all counties north of Yorkshire...
By "Northern" I think Barry is referring exclusively to Yorkshire and parts of the north west.
However, his comment doesn't stack up in other parts of "the north."
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| barry wrote: |
| maybe they're all northern - down pit, down job club |
That's down t'pit, down t'job club
bloody southern wazzok 
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maybe they're all northern - down pit, down job club
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Eh??
People "up here" always pronounce "the" - as they do in all counties north of Yorkshire...
By "Northern" I think Barry is referring exclusively to Yorkshire and parts of the north west.
However, his comment doesn't stack up in other parts of "the north." |
Imitating my co-workers up here by doing this constantly amuses me
Put them boxes ont'wagon then go int'kitchen fur'brew
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Barry's talking rubbish (for want of ebing able to type an alliterative word, if you get my drift), in both yorkshire and lancashire "the" becomes "t'" - down t'pit, to t'pub etc etc
nbt
professional northerner
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midgetbiker,
The City as a replacement for London is, in my mind anyway (ironic alert) capitalised and hence used as a compound proper noun...
But yes I agree "I'm going to town", seems highly acceptable, whereas "I'm going to village" sounds rather action oriented, and not in a good way.
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JimW,
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But yes I agree "I'm going to town", seems highly acceptable, whereas "I'm going to village" sounds rather action oriented, and not in a good way
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Brilliant!
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Masque, I plead the Fifth.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Actually I've decided, I don't care if someone says to me "are we going into the resort" or "are we going into Resort" as either means I am close enough to Chamonix (& therefore the associated mountains) that the suggestion is viable 
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The City as a replacement for London
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surely "the City" is not a replacement for London - just the City? "I'm going to London today." "The City?" "No, the West End".
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New Pedant Allarm
Since "on piste" is not one of the phrases being complained about, why is this subject on Piste?
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snowball, 
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"on the piste" seems to have a whole different meaning.
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FAQ
but I wonder why "in town" is OK for instance, but not "in village" or "in city". Still - I am glad to hear I am not alone!!!! 
