"RTP" or "The RTP" — discuss! (Durham: schools, college)

[lb27608]

The park's own branding refers to it as "The Research Triangle Park". Note the header graphic on the RTP home page:

https://www.rtp.org

Elsewhere on the site, you'll find references styled as "RTP" and "the RTP".

[hey_guy]

Originally Posted by lb27608

The park's own branding refers to it as "The Research Triangle Park". Note the header graphic on the RTP home page:

https://www.rtp.org

Elsewhere on the site, you'll find references styled as "RTP" and "the RTP".

it really comes down to if you see it as a proper noun or not.

RTP is pretty synonmous with our area so it doesnt need it.

Is the research triangle a place? or a description?

We do say "THUH TRIANGLE" but we don't say "THE CARY"

[skaternum]

Yes:
RTP
The Park

No:
The RTP
The Research Triangle

NEVER:
RDU, unless you mean the freaking airport!

[GarnetAndBlack]

Originally Posted by poppydog

Well, actually I heard it on WCHL. Can't get much more local than that. I think I also heard it on That Station 97.5. I could give them a pass since they're new, but the WCHL folks are born and bred Tar Heels.

Traffic on That Station would be the same girl that’s on Mix 101.5 lol. So she is local. So much for that theory!

[pierretong1991]

I've never heard "The Park" until now but then again I don't work out there.

[Bookmen]

It was also WCHL that made up the odious "Chapelboro."

[poppydog]

Ahhh, I kinda like Chapelboro since I live almost on the border of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Kids went to Carrboro Elementary, but we vote in Chapel Hill.

I could kinda see "The Research Triangle Park". I've always referred to it as RTP or "the park", though.

[hertfordshire]

Originally Posted by hey_guy

help whats a proper noun

So the President lives in White House?

You go to New York to see Statue of Liberty?

Or Arizona to see Grand Canyon?

Seems to me those are examples of proper nouns that do indeed use an article.

[hertfordshire]

Originally Posted by hey_guy

RTP is pretty synonmous with our area so it doesnt need it.

RTP isn't synonymous with our area. It is a specific part of our area.

[somebodyfromnc]

Originally Posted by pierretong1991

I've never heard "The Park" until now but then again I don't work out there.

Neither have I, but I listen to SiriusXM or streaming music almost entirely. I don't think I've listened to AM/FM in almost a decade.

"The RTP" just sounds silly.