History InconsistentSpelling / Literature

** The island Queequeg comes from is called both Kokovoko and Rokovoko in different passages.

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': The titular character's name is supposed to be hyphenated according to the original books, but Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation spells his name as three separate words. Spanish translations could never settle on a spelling for Pooh's name, not to mention Disney ignoring [[SpellMyNameWithAThe the word "the"]] for decades. Disney now leaves Pooh's name in English.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The Japanese versions of the novels have color picture inserts on which the English-language names of some of the characters are written; in two cases so far, these differ from their names in Creator/YenPress's translations. "Yurie Lake" became "Yuri Leik", and "Leoncio Etchevalria", which was probably supposed to be the Basque surname "Echevarria", lost a 't' and became "Leoncio Echevalria".

* Another Asimov short story, "Unto the Fourth Generation", is centered on variations of Levkovich (Lewkovich, Lefkovitz, and so on) and a peculiar form of sort-of time travel. Mostly, it's about family, as the name suggests.

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' is ''very'' frequently misspelled as "Berenst'''e'''in Bears", so much there is even an urban legend that it was Berenstein but was changed due to Antisemitism. Alas, many people have dug up the original copies of the books from their childhood, only to find that, yes, it was Berenstain even back then. The most likely explanation is Berenstein is simply a ''much'' more common name than Berenstain, (indeed, [[WordOfGod Stan Berenstain himself said]] that as a kid most other kids (and even some teachers) mispronounced his name as "Berenstein" or "Bernstein"). This is because it is two different spellings/pronunciations of the same name. It means burnt stone, usually referring to amber. Shtain is the correct pronunciation of the latter part of the name, regardless of spelling. Bernstein is another common variant.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': The first name of the Anglican Church's leader has usually been translated as "Laura", but it was eventually confirmed that it should be "Lola". This is because [[spoiler:she is based on the real-life figure Lola Zaza Crowley.]]

* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': In the English localization by Creator/YenPress, the Pope of the Church goes from being named "Godd Deus" in first two novel volumes (and the manga adaptation of volume 1), to "Godot Deus" in volume 3, to "Godd Deos" in volume 5.

* In more recent translations of classic Greek literature as well as histories, there is a tendency to transliterate directly from Greek instead of using the traditional Latin transliterations. Hence "Herakles" instead of "Heracles" or the Roman form "Hercules". This avoids pronunciation problems like the linguistic softening of the letter "C" before "E" or "I". (Latin does not have the letter "K", and the Latin letter "C" is always hard[[note]]in Classical Latin, that is. Ecclesiastical Latin is pronounced quite differently, and often sounds similar to Italian, which is why the Latin spoken in churches may use soft C sounds.[[/note]].)

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': The titular character's name is supposed to be hyphened according to the original books, but Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation spells his name as three separate words. Spanish translations could never settle on a spelling for Pooh's name, not to mention Disney ignoring [[SpellMyNameWithAThe the word "the"]] for decades. Disney now leaves Pooh's name in English.

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': It happens in universe during linguistic shifts over the course of centuries. This causes political troubles when Quenya-speakers start pronouncing the name of Fëanor's mother as "Therindë" and not the "Serindë" she used during her life. This sets off the enormously touchy and prideful Fëanor into a belief that this is a ''conspiracy'' against her and takes strong offense if he hears it pronounced with the 'th' sound.

* As shown on the main page: the book series, (and subsequent cartoon), ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' is ''very'' frequently misspelled as "Berenst'''e'''in Bears", so much there is even an urban legend that it was Berenstein but was changed due to there still being a fair amount of Antisemitism in TheSixties. Alas, many people have dug up the original copies of the books from their childhood, only to find that, yes, it was Berenstain even back then. The most likely explanation is Berenstein is simply a ''much'' more common name than Berenstain, (indeed, [[WordOfGod Stan Berenstain himself said]] that as a kid most other kids (and even some teachers) mispronounced his name as "Berenstein" or "Bernstein")
** This is because it is two different spellings/pronunciations of the same name. It means burnt stone, usually referring to amber. Shtain is the correct pronunciation of the latter part of the name, regardless of spelling. Bernstein is another common variant.

* ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'':
** In the books, the head of the Day Watch is romanised as Zabulon, while the movies spell it Zavulon. They also can't agree on Egor or Yegor (though these two are just different transcriptions of the same Russian name, "Егор"). Different volumes of the series also variably spell the name of the head of the Night Watch as Gesar or Geser.
*** WordOfGod says: "I took 'Mythological Dictionary', opened it randomly. There was Geser. I read the description and it kinda fit. Second time it came 'Zavulon'. Honestly."

* Happens in-universe in Literature/TolkiensLegendarium during linguistic shifts over the course of centuries. This causes political troubles when Quenya-speakers start pronouncing the name of Fëanor's mother as "Therindë" and not the "Serindë" she used during her life. This sets off the enormously touchy and prideful Fëanor into a belief that this is a ''conspiracy'' against her and takes strong offense if he hears it pronounced with the 'th' sound.
* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': In the English localization by Creator/YenPress, the Pope of the Church goes from being named "Godd Deus" in first two novel volumes (and the manga adaptation of volume 1), to "Godot Deus" in volume 3, to "Godd Deos" in volume 5. Make up your minds!

* Literature/WinnieThePooh's name is supposed to be hyphened according to the original books, but Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation spells his name as three separate words.
** Spanish translations could never settle on a spelling for Pooh's name, not to mention Disney ignoring [[SpellMyNameWithAThe the word "the"]] for decades. Disney now leaves Pooh's name in English.
* Hilary Mantel uses the older spellings for certain names in ''Literature/WolfHall''. Rafe Sadler is today spelled as Ralph Sadler (much like Ralph Fiennes), Wykys became Wykes, etcetera.

* The title of the game involved in ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' is given as ''Love Me Magically!'' in the localized novels, and ''A Magical Romance'' in the localized anime.

* In ''Literature/TheHammerAndTheCross," "Odin" is used on the book cover, but "Othin" in the text. The "eth" rune is conventionally transliterated to "d," but not here.

** Incredibly pedantic example, but for whatever reason the whale's name is hyphenated only in the book's title, while in the actual text it's always spaced out as "Moby Dick".

* Literature/WinnieThePooh's name is supposed to be hyphened according to the original books, but Creator/{{Disney}} spells his name as three separate words.