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Have you read Catch-22? There's a guy with the rank of major whose ln is Major and whose mother wanted to name him Caleb. His father sneakily named him Major instead, went home and said "I have named the boy Caleb, in accordance with your wishes". So, when Caleb started school he found that he wasn't himself any more, but a total stranger named Major Major. Once in the Army, he rose through the ranks and should have risen even higher, but the senior officers couldn't resist having the US Armed Forces' one and only Major Major Major, so he reached his glass ceiling.

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When I first read it, and what a wonderful book it is, I found it very amusing that the father preferred a repeated ln to the fn Caleb. I respected him for avoiding Caleb, but not for duplicating his surname!