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   Hi Alexander,   
      
    AK>> If Miln had put it with a capital first letter it was rather a   
    AK>> name.   
    GH> It seems at first it was a denotation and a name at the same time. The   
    GH> writer was introducing "The Piglet" as an "object" in the story in the   
    GH> course of 2-3 sentences, and then it actually settled in as a personal   
    GH> name.   
      
   Have you heard an idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses"?   
      
   As I've mentioned earlier, English articles are quite an interesting subject   
   to study per se, and speaking of it in regard to its usage with names and   
   proper nouns, here's some info that might help us:   
      
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   More generally, using an article before a proper noun that doesn't have one   
   built into it (as the United States and the Rolling Stones do) is one example   
   of using a proper noun as a countable noun.   
      
   There are several reasons why we might do that normally. One is to say   
   something like "there are three Johns in the group", meaning "there are three   
   people called John in the group".   
      
   Another is to add distance to the identification; "I have a John Smith on the   
   line" is a common expression for "I have someone on the line, who tells me he   
   is John Smith, and that is all that is known about him". A similar is to   
   report, e.g. "One John Smith is accused of the crime", emphasising that we   
   have no further identifying details at present, and hence we are not stating   
   precisely which person of that name is the subject of the sentence.   
      
   Another is to use a proper noun as an example of particular traits that could   
   also be held by others (a type of synecdoche). "The next Bob Dylan" (a   
   singer-songwriter from the folk scene who will repeat Dylan's success), "He's   
   an Einstein" (he's very smart), "All Mozarts have their Salieris" (not really   
   true even for Mozart and Salieri, but let's say we believed the film Amadeus   
   was accurate).   
      
   Another, almost inverse to this, is to speak of the person or thing signified   
   by the proper noun at a particular time, or from a particular perspective:   
   "The London of a hundred years ago was a notoriously unhealthy place", "The   
   John you know is not the John I know" (that could also mean you are talking of   
   a literally different person, depending on context).   
      
   The above are reasonably standard, though figurative.   
      
   Another common variation is to jokingly make use of these forms, when one   
   normally would not. If talking of a friend, we would generally use their name   
   as a proper noun, because that's how names work in English, but since every   
   person called George is "a George", and so on the form is logically correct,   
   though not strictly good English. To use it of a friend could suggest that you   
   have gotten as far as knowing it's a George, but not which one, or that   
   George's are all alike and you've hence found someone who will have all the   
   George-like qualities that George has. Both obviously are not sensible, but   
   therein is the joke. Another variant would be if you were looking for George,   
   and then spotted him. Again "ah, there's a George" would suggest that you'd   
   were just looking for Georges generally, which again is not sensible, hence   
   the joke.   
      
   All of these last cases are examples of deliberately bad English, used as a   
   joke, rather than something that would normally be considered correct.   
      
   [A completely different case is when there's a word that is the same as a   
   proper noun, but isn't a proper noun, of which some slang cases started as a   
   proper noun and are hence sometimes capitalised.]   
   ====== From:   
   english.stackexchange.com/questions/104439/indefinite-article-and-peoples-names   
      
      
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