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Um, since when? It does have a name: Sol. The fact that its not a good name -- in fact, its the word for "sun" in several languages -- doesn't negate that fact.

And the very fact that they are thought of as proper names means that they will become the proper names -- English language (well, languages in general) are one of the few places where that comes anywhere close to true.

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there are so many things wrong with this... let me rewrite it for you
A:Yes. Yes. Yes. Good. its not a proper name, but "THE solar system" is the actual name of our solar system, as it refers to the point of reference solar system, which pretty much everyone agrees for English: its the place that holds every single last english speaker. "THE sun" has the same general arguement (although the question of whether or not "sun" applies to other stars is ambiguous) as does "THE moon", the as an article, acts as an adjective. in essence this isnt any different than "THE George Bush". of course there are multiple George Bushes, but which one does pretty much EVERYONE know?

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*Points* Thats it, in a nutshell, everyone look!



Lol, that can be summed up in one word, pedantic.

Solar

Sol is Latin for sun;

Sun



I guess this suggests each star is its system's sun.


Solar can be used in both meanings. Our sun is also named Sun. Like a guy named Guy.

lol stargate ftw

Very true



Following what Schem has already said, it is a planet in *a* solar system outside of *the* solar system.

It is a planet in a solar system outside the Solar system. The capital letters say it all. Except at the beggining of the sentence.