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Re: remove the Finder from the Dock?

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Király:
> What is it about Finder that has people wanting to put the word "The" in 
> front of it? I never hear "The Mail" "The Automator" "The Calendar" "The 
> Safari" or "The Contacts". 
 
> If Finder was a country it would be Ukraine.

Perhaps, if it wasn't The Sudan or The Yemen, The United Arab Emirates,
The United Kingdom, The United States, The Congo, or The Netherlands.

The answer to your question is that The Mail, The Automator, The
Safari, and some others don't sound quite right. "The Finder" sounds
just fine, but if you disagree, then you should most certainly call it
"Finder."

Sometimes omitting "the" can make for a clumsy sentence. "What time is
the Smith's party?" "I forget. Check Calendar." Not so good, IMO. "I
forget. Check the Calendar." "To copy a file, you must first open
Finder." Acceptable, perhaps, but "To copy a file, you must first open
the Finder" sounds better to me.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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  Re: remove the Finder from the Dock? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-07-16 23:02 -0400
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    Re: remove the Finder from the Dock? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-07-17 22:04 +0000
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      Re: remove the Finder from the Dock? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-07-17 21:50 -0400
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        Re: remove the Finder from the Dock? Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> - 2013-07-21 20:35 -0700
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