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I have another instance to offer that demonstrates the significance of re-naming the same phenomenon.

In the middle of his career, contract disputes led to Prince changing his stage name¹ from “Prince” to the unpronounceable symbol shown under the middle picture in the above graphic. The press circumvented the symbol by referring to “The Artist formerly known as Prince.” The performer has since returned to the hardly prosaic “Prince” appellation although sardonic sorts will still, on occasion, refer to him as “The artist formerly known as ‘the artist formerly known as Prince.’”

Note the transformations wrought by the shifts in names.


Footnotes

1. For the record, Prince’s given, non-stage name is Prince Rogers Nelson↩