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I think we should stop suggesting that a dragon name could be a mispelling of another name. With around 200 dragons in the Aerial Corps, there's going to be plenty of names. If a name seems like it's been said randomly, remember that we're not seeing every second of interaction between characters here. We have hundreds of minor crew hands on the Allegiance and Temeraire who are seen only a few times, and yet we don't speculate whether their name is a mispelling or not (compare Fellowes, Leddowes and Therrows, three different characters with similar sounding names). [[User:Almaron|Almaron]] 02:23, 7 September 2010 (PDT)
 
I think we should stop suggesting that a dragon name could be a mispelling of another name. With around 200 dragons in the Aerial Corps, there's going to be plenty of names. If a name seems like it's been said randomly, remember that we're not seeing every second of interaction between characters here. We have hundreds of minor crew hands on the Allegiance and Temeraire who are seen only a few times, and yet we don't speculate whether their name is a mispelling or not (compare Fellowes, Leddowes and Therrows, three different characters with similar sounding names). [[User:Almaron|Almaron]] 02:23, 7 September 2010 (PDT)
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:...except that Sanderson is mentioned for each of them. Whoops. Perhaps it is an error. Or it could be that Sanderson and Animosia were the leaders of a formation that also contained Artemisia, and Roland was helping the lot? Fail on my part. [[User:Almaron|Almaron]] 02:26, 7 September 2010 (PDT)

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Please add categories -- thanks. -whitearrow 10:33, 9 September 2008 (PDT)

Aha! THAT'S how you get an entry to show up in those lists!  :-) Rose 13:40, 9 September 2008 (PDT)

I think we should stop suggesting that a dragon name could be a mispelling of another name. With around 200 dragons in the Aerial Corps, there's going to be plenty of names. If a name seems like it's been said randomly, remember that we're not seeing every second of interaction between characters here. We have hundreds of minor crew hands on the Allegiance and Temeraire who are seen only a few times, and yet we don't speculate whether their name is a mispelling or not (compare Fellowes, Leddowes and Therrows, three different characters with similar sounding names). Almaron 02:23, 7 September 2010 (PDT)

...except that Sanderson is mentioned for each of them. Whoops. Perhaps it is an error. Or it could be that Sanderson and Animosia were the leaders of a formation that also contained Artemisia, and Roland was helping the lot? Fail on my part. Almaron 02:26, 7 September 2010 (PDT)