avoidance behavior?

[derien]

*looks at the dishes* 

*drinks copious amounts of tea*

*edites the Wikipedia page on Ronald Psmith to reflect the fact that he originally seemed to be named Rupert.* 

I suspect that Wodehouse also accidently gave Lord Emsworth's secretary the same first name, and then when they were to come into the same story he figured it would be confusing for them to have the same first name and so changed Psmith's, thinking nobody would notice. 

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[derien.livejournal.com]

I suspect there's certain names he finds amusing. Agustas (Gussie) Fink-Nottle and Agustas the cat. Wilberforce is Bertie's middle name and, I believe, the last name of the woman who Bertie's uncle marries (the one who'd been his sweetheart when they were young but was of the wrong class so they were broken up by the family). He also gives a writer who is universally acknowledged as horrible, in "Psmith, Journalist," his own middle name as her middle name. ;)

But the Reggie example is the best!