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** Yeerk names indicate the parental grub and have a number designation afterward that refers to their order of origination from the tri-parent. Originally the number changed as rank changed, but it was retconned to be permenant. In the case of a twin, one is the prime and one the lesser, like Visser Three and his brother. The prime gets all the best hosts and assignments. So, Visser Three is Espin9466 prime, the 9466th grub from the Espin tri-parent and the prime twin.
* [[Anne McCaffrey]] pays ''a lot'' of attention to her naming conventions in the ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' series.
** All dragon's names end in TH, but the reason for this is never explored. (Word of God says it's because dragons have forked tongues, so would speak with a lisp.
** It is traditional on Pern to name a child with a combination of the first half of the father's name, and second half of the mother's name. This is occasionally abandoned when the result is awkward, or could cause [[Unfortunate Implications|confusion as to paternity]].
** All male dragonrider's names have an apostrophe stuck in: their names are shortened forms of their pre-Impression names. A prequel novel tells us that it is the dragons that first started doing this and that they, at the time, shortened the names of both men and women. Shortened names are meant to be easier and quicker to shout while in the air, which explains why the dragons turned Falarran into F’lar. (The danger of mishearing names is apparently not as important.) After Jaxom Impresses Ruth, Lessa<ref>Additional capital letters available at reception upon request</ref> wryly notes that weyrwomen usually choose names that produce something nice when shortened: J’xom and Jax’m don't quite cut it, to her ears. ([[Fridge Logic]]: J’om is dead easy.)
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