Timeline for "The" before acronyms and abbreviations
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| Aug 29, 2015 at 10:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There is sadly only one rule in English. Find out what accepted individual usages are. Here, the 'rule' given at your link will work pretty often, but what's the use of a 'rule' that lets you down unexpectedly? // In OP's example, as SF. says, the question doesn't arise. The initialism is a red herring; the question might as well be '[Should I use] "Integration of (the/a/?) new database ..."?' | |
| Aug 29, 2015 at 7:42 | comment | added | Louis Liu | So, as a learner of English grammar I would ask, what is the rule? | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Yes; the article is wrong. 'But initialisms require the' is far from being a rule. I state above that 'NBC' is used instead of 'the NBC', and you'll never hear a bald 'the ITV' in the UK. Also, 'laser' (an archetypal acronym) can be used as a count noun and be preceded by a or the. | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 8:37 | comment | added | Louis Liu | See here: dailywritingtips.com/initialisms-and-acronyms | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 9:59 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |