Interesting point, and I genuinely hadn't thought of that aspect.
(For people not aware of the background, George Osbourne, the much-reviled Chancellor, the high priest of austerity, was christened Gideon Oliver Osbourne, but chose to become George Gideon Oliver Osbourne at 13 - it's common for him to be referred to as Gideon by his political opponents).
I utterly despise the man, but you have a point.
And to make it doubly a point, my novel-in-progress, which I really need to get back to, has as one of its three leads someone who fought a battle to change her name (or at least it's diminutive) in her teens (ironically for this conversation she changed it to Aleks)
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(For people not aware of the background, George Osbourne, the much-reviled Chancellor, the high priest of austerity, was christened Gideon Oliver Osbourne, but chose to become George Gideon Oliver Osbourne at 13 - it's common for him to be referred to as Gideon by his political opponents).
I utterly despise the man, but you have a point.
And to make it doubly a point, my novel-in-progress, which I really need to get back to, has as one of its three leads someone who fought a battle to change her name (or at least it's diminutive) in her teens (ironically for this conversation she changed it to Aleks)