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** As well, his daughter Polgara sometimes goes as the Dutchess of Erat, a title she technically owns although the duchy itself has been gone for thousands of years. |
** As well, his daughter Polgara sometimes goes as the Dutchess of Erat, a title she technically owns although the duchy itself has been gone for thousands of years. |
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* In ''The Truth-Teller's Tale'', members of the royal family have secret names that no one outside the family knows. A prince in disguise uses his as an alias. The narrator is a Truth-Teller, who [[Living Lie Detector|can detect when someone is lying]], but since it's technically the prince's real name, she doesn't register that as a lie. |
* In ''The Truth-Teller's Tale'', members of the royal family have secret names that no one outside the family knows. A prince in disguise uses his as an alias. The narrator is a Truth-Teller, who [[Living Lie Detector|can detect when someone is lying]], but since it's technically the prince's real name, she doesn't register that as a lie. |
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* The [[LM Montgomery]] short story "The Pot and the Kettle" combines a double use of this with a [[Two |
* The [[LM Montgomery]] short story "The Pot and the Kettle" combines a double use of this with a [[Two-Person Love Triangle]]. |
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* In ''[[The Ordinary Princess]]'', Princess Amethyst works as a kitchen maid under her nickname, Amy. {{spoiler|The king of the kingdom she's working in does the same thing--she knows the king's name is Algernon, but he uses one of his many middle names.}} |
* In ''[[The Ordinary Princess]]'', Princess Amethyst works as a kitchen maid under her nickname, Amy. {{spoiler|The king of the kingdom she's working in does the same thing--she knows the king's name is Algernon, but he uses one of his many middle names.}} |
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* In ''How Not to Spend Your Senior Year'', when Jo and her father fake their deaths and go into witness protection, she uses her middle name and her mother's maiden name to enroll at another school. When the federal marshals who put them in witness protection want her to use a completely fake name, Jo tells them about an incident when she and a friend switched names as a prank on a substitute teacher and couldn't pull it off because they weren't used to responding to someone else's name. |
* In ''How Not to Spend Your Senior Year'', when Jo and her father fake their deaths and go into witness protection, she uses her middle name and her mother's maiden name to enroll at another school. When the federal marshals who put them in witness protection want her to use a completely fake name, Jo tells them about an incident when she and a friend switched names as a prank on a substitute teacher and couldn't pull it off because they weren't used to responding to someone else's name. |
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