>> You are correct and a lot of writers miss this point. A good example is >> Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" books. Ten volumes, I don't think a >> name is repeated once. Its like everyone on the planet has a unique >> name. And then you've got GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire, wherein there are a few dozen Walders, a handful of Waltyrs, lotsa Rickards, a coupla Jons, some Robbs and Roberts, and eighty bajillion people whose names begin with "San". I think that we ought to be grateful that Steve only flings an Orlaan and a Loraan at us. ¬ MJ