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By the same token, it’s nice, these days, to give a kid a compact middle name—short, two syllables at most—so that, using his full name, he may succinctly defend himself against homonymity.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2014

Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?

From Ulysses by Joyce, James