The Ohio State University wants to trademark the word ‘THE’: School tries to claim the commonly-used word for its branded merchandise
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Florida’s governor signed an act making the Florida State College for Women coeducational and renaming it Florida State University on May 15, 1947.
Florida State University likes to refer to themselves as “The Florida State University”, rather than just Florida State University.
Seems they have the same obsession with the word “The”.
I always laugh when I hear “The” emphasized in a college/university name.
I went to USNA.
Now try to say United States Naval Academy in a sentence without using ‘the’.
I can say ‘I went to Ohio State University’, etc without ‘the’ and it sounds fine; but I can’t say ‘I went to United States Naval Academy’ without it sounding odd.
Yet in every ad, reference, football game announcement ‘the’ is always said in passing - almost under the breath- on the way to the meat of the subject.