Subj : Strange a bit
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Gleb Hlebov
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 09:05:38

Hi Alexander,

Wed 25 Sep 2024 at 11:26, you wrote to Anton Shepelev:

 AK>>> Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something
 AK>>> else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on 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? ;-)

Could be the answer is already in your question. He most likely got tired and dropped it. :-)

 AS>> My opinion:
 AS>> At first, `piglet' was a mere /noun/, but once the reader was used to
 AS>> him as a the member of the merry company, it becane the /name/.
 AK> If Miln had put it with a capital first letter it was rather a name.

It seems at first it was a denotation and a name at the same time. The writer was introducing "The Piglet" as an "object" in the story in the course of 2-3 sentences, and then it actually settled in as a personal name.


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