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Supercat Do you usually add 'the' to een a less common product?

No. You should not add the definite article before proper nouns in English. This includes the names of software products, regardless of how famous, popular or common they are.

Thank you always

teechrYou should not add the definite article before proper nouns in English.

He stayed at the Ritz hotel.
Have you ever travelled on the Orient Express?
They crossed the Pacific Ocean.
I never read The Times.
The Mississippi is a long river.
We visited the Brit

Cool Breeze teechrYou should not add the definite article before proper nouns in English.He stayed at the Ritz hotel.Have you ever travelled on the Orient Express?They crossed the Pacific Ocean.I never read The Times.The Mississippi is a long river.We visited the British Museum.He lives in the Philippines. And so on.CB

Of course!
My point to the OP was not

There's usually some explanation.


He stayed at the Ritz hotel. (the hotel named after Ritz; the + hotel, not the + Ritz)
But not The RItz was the man who had this hotel built.
...
The Mississippi is a long river. (The river named Mississippi; the + river, not the + Mississippi)
But not The Missi

CalifJimThere's usually some explanation.

Indeed. In this case it is that the names of all hotels and rivers take the definite article, but the names of states don't. Of course there are exceptions to the rule.

We stayed at the Hilton.
I have worked at the Angel & Royal Hotel.

The Nile flows through Egypt.
The

teechrMy point to the OP was not to add the definite article if it's not already part of the name

I misunderstood you. I don't think many people would add the article if there already was one: We stayed at the the Ritz.

CB

Cool Breeze He stayed at the Ritz hotel. Have you ever travelled on the Orient Express?They crossed the Pacific Ocean.I never read The Times.The Mississippi is a long river.We visited the British Museum.He lives in the Philippines. And so on.CB

Then these proper nouns require 'the', and this is a traditionally usual thing?

I think a country name Phili

There are exceptions, but the names of hotels, trains, boats, oceans and seas, newspapers, rivers and museums normally require the definite article, and so do plural geographic names. The Philippines is a plural geographic name, just like the United States, the Netherlands, the Alps and the Hebrides.

CB