Warp wrote:

>   I don't know if that has any name assigned to, but what I do know is
> that in Finnish that's officially perfectly valid, as specified by the
> Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, the official organization
> which specifies what is correct Finnish and what isn't.
> 
>   I would be surprised if this wasn't the case with many other languages
> as well, including English.
> 
>   "The TCP protocol" is thus correct, and if you need to "open it", you
> say "the transmission control protocol".
> 
>   Anything else is hairsplitting.

...so there you have it, ladies and gentleman!

Well, well. I asked Wikipedia about it, and so far I've just spent a 
whiel reading about such unrelated topics as "article" and "particle"...

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