Wednesday, June 27, 2018

grammaticality - Why do some people prefix people's names with "the"?

Lately I've been seeing a trend that I find disturbing for some reason, mostly in Indian publications but also in some American ones - prefixing people's names with "the". For example: The Mr. Gandhi said that taking the Narendra Modi's name was tantamount to committing a crime in the party.



Is this proper usage? It surely doesn't sound right.

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