User talk:Horologium/October 2013

Dewatto River
I see that you reverted my change in the Dewatto River, where I removed the article "the" from in front of Hood Canal. Now, I'm a Washington native whose gone to Hood Canal numerous times in my lifetime and have grown up reading the local papers. . . and I have never seen it referred to as "the Hood Canal". Look at the Hood Canal article itself and kindly explain to me. . . is the lack of the article "the" in that article an error, or did you make a mistake in reverting me? &mdash; Myasuda (talk) 12:40, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I live in Washington, my husband lived in Poulsbo for several years, and we have friends in Kingston. My husband and our friends (both Western Washington natives) always use "the" in front, but a quick check of the archives from The Seattle Times indicates that "the" is indeed not normally used (only one of the first three pages of results for "Hood Canal" shows it prefaced with the definite article). I've reverted myself.  Horologium  (talk) 15:22, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay -- thanks for providing your perspective. Perhaps the usage / non-usage of the definite article is a regional one, where the locals have adopted it.  If so, this might even be worth mentioning in the actual Hood Canal article lede. &mdash; Myasuda (talk) 00:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)