By Mary Morel
Reader’s question: Which should you say?
The book is titled …
or
The book is entitled …
Answer: I think you can use either. The Macquarie Dictionary gives one definition of entitled as ‘to call by a particular title or name; name’.
Not everyone agrees. Some people think you should use entitled to mean ‘given a title, claim or right to something’ and titled for titles.
Read what Daily Writing Tips says.
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