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Old 11-23-2016, 04:05 PM   #402
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
Same thing. It wouldn't matter.

They actually should drop it when you think about it. If you say; "The Calgary Flames are playing the Los Angeles Kings (or the Las Vegas Knights)", you are really just doubling the article.

To a fluently bilingual Spanish-English speaker (which Nevada probably has many), it would sound weird I would think.
"The Los Angeles Angels" literally translates to "The The Angels Angels".
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