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Old 06-28-2019, 04:38 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
I remember reading where author's are recommended not to have similar sounding names i.e. Barry, Larry, Mary, etc. as well as to make sure to stay with the same throughout. I.e. don't call them Larry in one place, Mr. Jones in another and the accountant in another. Instead if you need to use all three at once in some way like ' Larry Jones, the head accountant at Pineville Bank & Trust ltd. ...' so that the reader knows who you are talking about.
This is another of those context sensitive pieces of advice. Yes, you must try to be sure the reader is always clear about who is who (without being unnecessarily condescending to your reader), but also remembering that how they are referred to is also part of speech (and, in first person narratives, thought) patterns.
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