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Professional indexer Glenda Browne, who lives in Australia, has been traveling, observing all the while. She says:


We've been travelling in Europe. As an indexer, this sign took my fancy:



BACKGROUND: Browne was awarded the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in literature for her study of the word "the" — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.  That study is:


"The Definite Article: Acknowledging 'The' in Index Entries," Glenda Browne, The Indexer, vol. 22, no. 3 April 2001, pp. 119-22.


 





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