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* The Irish name Seán has maintained [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff a surprising amount of popularity]] across socioeconomic groups in Israel, where having a Western name if you were born there is generally seen as a sign of pretentiousness, at least for boys, but more often than not they spell their ''own'' name in English as ‘Shon’. Also, in the U.S. this name seems to frequently be spelled "Shawn", and in Scotland "Shaun"[[note]]English actor Creator/SeanBean's birth name is actually "Shaun", but he chose to be known professionally as "Sean"[[/note]].
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* ''Literature/{{Pale}}'': Many Practioner terms (including "Practitioner" itself) are just ordinary words capitalized. Humorously, in one scene where Avery clarifies that she's referring to a "Storm" rather than a "storm", the other side half-jokingly responds "I'm a Practioner; I can hear the capital letters".

Some people [[MyNaymeIs spell words differently from the usual spelling]]. Some people not only spell words differently from the usual spelling but can tell when somebody saying it ''is spelling it wrong in his or her head''. It's as if they can infer the other person having an "incorrect" FunetikAksent.

* This exchange from Wodehouse's ''Meet Mr. Mulliner'':

* Franchise/{{Tintin}}'s indistinguishable twin detectives Thomson and Thompson made use of this on occasion, for instance:

Some people [[MyNaymeIs spell words differently from the usual spelling]]. Some people not only spell words differently from the usual spelling but can tell when somebody saying it ''is spelling it wrong in his head''. It's as if they can infer the other person having an "incorrect" FunetikAksent.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow Short'' "A Short Pfuse" starred Pfish, a shark, who with Chip (a bobcat) were bomb squad officers. It was made by a pre-''Fairly Oddparents'' Butch Hartman.

* A similar problem (and source of UnitConfusion) is that "ton" and "tonne" are pronounced the same yet refer to different measurements of mass/weight. As a result, the former is sometimes referred to as "short ton" and the latter as "metric ton".