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 Message 3691 
 Alexander Koryagin to Ardith Hinton 
 Beauty and the Beast 
 05 Apr 21 09:04:12 
 
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Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
I read your message from 31.03.2021 23:30

 AH>> But whether "Beauty" is seen there as the name of a person
 AH>> or "beauty" in the general sense or both, the article would still
 AH>> be omitted in English....
 AH> [...]
 AK>> I even heard that articles in titles are not necessary in English
 AK>> at all.

 AH> That would be going a bit too far. It is true that a title may have
 AH> the initial article listed at the end, following a commma, in the
 AH> library card catalogue & suchlike... e.g. CANADIAN OXFORD
 AH> DICTIONARY, THE. We have so many titles beginning with "a(n)"
 AH> or "the" we'd never find anything otherwise.

 AH> It is also true that I say "my CANADIAN OXFORD DICTIONARY" at
 AH> times, particularly in this echo, but I'm writing informally here.
 AH> If I were writing an academic essay I'd make sure all the i's were
 AH> dotted & all the t's crossed.

I meant newspaper titles, for instance:

Taiwan train crash: Lorry boss offers 'deep remorse'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56632955

 AK>> So it easily could be "Beaty and Beast", isn't it?

 AH> Only if both are proper nouns. In this tale "the beast" is a prince
 AH> under a magic spell. Whatever his real name is I doubt
 AH> it's "Beast", although he's listed that way in the movie credits.

IMHO it's the same like Belle listed as a beauty. well, I'll read the original
and say more. ;)


Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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