ITunes ignores "the" in song names, how do I disable?

iTunes seems to ignore the "the" prefix in song names.
However, when one of my songs for example is named "The World". I refuse to call it "World" just because iTunes has this ridicilous limitation.
So I wanted to ask, how do I disable this?

iTunes intentionally ignores articles (a/an/the) at the beginning of text for the purposes of sorting. "The Beatles" get sorted under B not T. You can override the default behavior by putting the original non-sort values in the corresponding sort field. So if you want a song called "The World" to appear with other songs that begin with T (in a lists sorted on song name) then change the sort name to "The World", instead "World", or leaving it blank.
If you want to completely eliminate this auto-sorting feature you should be able to adjust a file called SortPrefixes.plist (location dependent on OS) and remove the entries you don't want. You will probably have to reapply this fix after each iTunes upgrade and I don't believe the effect carries through to your devices.
See this thread for more.
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