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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   AK> Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W,   
   AK> and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was,   
   AK> and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for   
   AK> Trespassers William.   
      
              Or something more like "trespassers will be prosecuted"....  :-Q   
      
      
   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? ;-)   
      
              Maybe his readers would find the repetition boring too.  Sometimes   
   we address people in English by their occupational title... e.g. Doctor,   
   Nurse, Mr. President... and I understand Jesus was addressed as Rabbi in his   
   own time.   
      
              Once we've been introduced & know him a little better we can refer   
   to this character as Piglet.  It makes more sense than Trespassers W, and a   
   hundred years ago various nouns were often capitalized in English as they are   
   in German.   
      
              It is also worth noting, I think, that Christopher Robin was the   
   name of the author's son.  As for the animal characters, many were probably   
   given the names a child would have given to his toys... +/- the exception of   
   the bear, who seems to have been named in part after one of the animals in the   
   London Zoo.   
      
              The author, BTW, is generally known Over Here as A. A. Milne....    
   :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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