Like CIA: insiders never refer to it with the definite article. That would be like referring referring to "the God" or "the Batman."
Domesday Book, DoE (and other government departments), Concorde. Things you can signal insider status by omitting the definite article before.
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Don't Batman's enemies refer to him as "the batman"? Or does everyone inside his universe do that?
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I don't follow...
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Nobody has ever said "The Concorde". (I'm assuming you're talking about the plane.)
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Americans do. Calling it just ‘Concorde’ is rare there. Canadians do both, but most of us do not add the definite article.
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Hilbert space
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Is that why "Facebook" was cooler than "The Facebook"?
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iPhone.
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When I was in government many would actually say ‘Energy’ instead of DoE, ‘Ag’ instead of the Department of Agriculture, and ‘Commerce’ instead of the Dept of Commerce.
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This why "the blockchain" is struggling
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