From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   William Vetter   wrote:   
   >William Vetter wrote:   
   >> Do you think the choice of names for animal characters in literature are   
   more   
   >> important than naming humans?   
   >>   
   >> For example in _Three Men in a Boat_, the characters' names are George,   
   >> Jerome, Harris, and Montmorency.   
   >>   
   >> Another thing that I notice is that civilians generally do not name their   
   >> pets the same way that authors do.   
   >>   
   >> There are many websites that claim to give the 10 or 20 most popular cat or   
   >> dog names.  Some of them allow visitors to add names to list to increase the   
   >> sampling, and this sort I feel is the most credible.  The name that's always   
   >> in the top three is Charlie.   
   >   
   >Let me try again...   
   >   
   >Mark Twain owned cats that he named Apollonaris, Beelzebub,   
   >Blatherskite, Zoroaster.   
   >   
   >I found a website named vetmd.com that had an automated page that asked   
   >viewers to add the names/gender of their cats & dogs...the sample size   
   >seems to have grown to more than 30,000, so I liked this one, although   
   >it seems to be down when I tried it a few days ago.  According to their   
   >list, the most popular name for a female cat is Angel, and the second   
   >most popular name for both male & female cats is Charlie.  Others in   
   >the top ten relate to patterns of the cats' coats:  Mittens, Tiger,   
   >Oreo...   
   >   
   >So you see what I'm getting at -- writers will approach the naming the   
   >same way they approach naming a fictional character, while the rest of   
   >humanity likely won't.   
      
   Sounds to me more like, writers have a larger vocabulary (and   
   aren't afraid to use it) than the average Joe.   
      
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