names of banks,arenas...- articles

[Tdol]

It's not at all straightforward- it's a mess.

[Humble]

What do you mean? I didn't understand those winks, either. Some complicity...
Well, and why can’t you say He had a drink in the Red Lion, if it’s a pub?
TIA

[BobK]

What do you mean? I didn't understand those winks, either. Some complicity...
Well, and why can’t you say He had a drink in the Red Lion, if it’s a pub?
TIA

I don't think there's any complicity, Humble (except perhaps in language learning - Tdol knows the difficulties in language learning, because he is one [but of Khmer rather than English]). English spelling and grammar's a mess, because it's an amalgam of several languages (with borrowings from many others).

And you certainly can say He had a drink in the Red Lion; what I said (perhaps unnecessarily) was that you don't repeat the article.

b

[Humble]

Thanks, Bob.