Getty Image / Frank Jansky / Icon Sportswire THE Ohio State University and the Buckeyes Football team were catching strays on Thursday. This came after the @APStylebook account fired off a tweet about the dehumanizing use of the word ‘the’. The AP Style Book recommends writers avoid using ‘the’ labels. Their tweet reads: “We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.” Let’s ignore the fact that they mentioned ‘the French’ for a moment. We’ll discuss that eventually. Because we’re here to talk about THE Ohio State Buckeyes. It didn’t take long after that APStylebook tweet for OSU tweets to start rolling in: It is hard to tell who is pro-THE Ohio State University and fans of other schools who…
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