This might seem that it is getting away from my question but it has circled back to precede my question. In some writings I do I referred to Solomons, Maryland also known as Solomons Island as
THE SOLOMONS and I was called to account for this (The use of THE). I had no good answer other than I heard others use this terminology. It was looking into this when I got "hung-up" on the cities ending in s thing that started all this.