Pet Hate

When Americans call the British newspaper the London Times, presumably due to some assumed correlation with the New York Times, or just to distinguish it from the same.

Sometimes, realising that this isn’t quite right, they call it the Times of London, which, although slightly better, still implies that “of London” is part of the name of the newspaper. cf. the way other British newspapers never seem to have the word London inserted into their names. e.g. “the British newspaper the Independent”.

Americans! Stop doing that!

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