Talk:Military of Vatican City

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Corsican guard links back to this page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.149.121 (talk) 21:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

According to their respective articles, the Noble Guard and the Palatine Guard were also abolushed in 1970. --Apoc2400 10:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move

Why article talking telegraphically? This should really be military of the Vatican City. In 'Vatican City', Vatican is an adjective (elsewhere it modifies 'hill', as in 'the Vatican Hill'); here, it modifies the noun 'city', which, being singular and countable, must have a determiner (in this case, the definite article). In a similar way we can call Rome 'the Eternal City'. In other words, this is not a parallel situation to 'Kuwait City' or 'Oklahoma City' or 'Mexico City', where we have two nouns and there is no article. In the latter situation, the first noun effectively acts as a determiner, as does 'hotel' in 'Hotel California', 'lake' as in 'Lake Como', or 'mount' as in 'Mount Vesuvius'. No less importantly, 'Vatican City' sounds unnatural and staccato, while 'the Vatican City' comes naturally. Q·L·1968 ☿ 16:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)