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It's a common practice. In film and TV adaptations of Arthur Ransome's classic children's story "Swallows and Amazons", for example, the character "Titty" (short for "Letitia") generally gets renamed these days, to "Kitty" in a BBC TV version, and "Tatty" in a film version that's currently being filmed.
The original name "Titty" was the real name of one of the three children of his friends, the Altounyans, whom Ransome taught to sail on holiday in the English Lake District one summer, an event which inspired the book. The names of all three children were used in the book.
Last edited by HarryT; 08-07-2015 at 01:13 PM.
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