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   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 23.09.2024 11:01   
      
    AK>> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    AK>> THE Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-   
    AK>> tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the   
    AK>> Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a   
    AK>> piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When   
    AK>> Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was   
    AK>> his grandfather's name, and had been in the family for a long   
    AK>> time. Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W,   
    AK>> and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and   
    AK>> it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers   
    AK>> William. And his grandfather had had two names in case he lost   
    AK>> one -- Trespassers after an uncle, and William after   
    AK>> Trespassers. "I've got two names," said Christopher Robin   
    AK>> carelessly.   
    AK>   
    AK>> "Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet. One fine   
    AK>> winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of   
    AK>> his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh.   
    AK>> Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of   
    AK>> something else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on   
    AK>> walking.   
    AK>> ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    AK>> Why at first the author used "the" before Piglet, and then he   
    AK>> trashed it into the dust bin, probably having tired of it? ;-)   
      
    AS> My opinion:   
    AS> At first, `piglet' was a mere /noun/,   
    AS> but once the reader was used to him   
    AS> as a the member of the merry company,   
    AS> it becane the /name/.   
      
   If Miln had put it with a capital first letter it was rather a name.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2024   
      
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