So do I. I remember, for intance, that in a certain five-book series (sequel to a certain other five-book series) which I read in my teenage years, there are all these great, perfectly suitable names for characters and countries and stuff, and then all of a sudden a guy gets a war-horse (a boy war-horse, naturally), and the war-horse's name is ... the feminine form of a French noun.
The horse becomes a fairly substantial character, and this totally inappropriate and obviously insufficiently researched name that his author gave him made me so twitchy that I almost couldn't finish the books.
This was in The Time Before Google, I grant you, when it was harder to look stuff up without knowing what it was you might be looking for because you actually had to have some clue where to look. But still.
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Date: 2007-07-17 02:43 pm (UTC)The horse becomes a fairly substantial character, and this totally inappropriate and obviously insufficiently researched name that his author gave him made me so twitchy that I almost couldn't finish the books.
This was in The Time Before Google, I grant you, when it was harder to look stuff up without knowing what it was you might be looking for because you actually had to have some clue where to look. But still.