Re: CHAT: Team Names

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:04:04 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Carlos Thompson wrote:
>> Most of the Professional Football
>> (Soccer) teams use singular in their names (those not known by the
>city), and
>> even those recognized by the city or some other place or use a
>plural name use
>> a singular article in the common name: el Santafe', el Ame'rica,
>*El* Santafe', *el* Ame'rica?  Not *la* Santafe', *la* Ame'rica?
The _el_ is probably from _el equipo_, "the team".

-Stephen (Steg), who is in the middle of a three-day-long AP Spanish
final

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