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Card #c269IR // #c269Synthesis

Outsiders sometimes found it funny that the road had one name to the north and another to the south, but that was the way it had always been, as far as anyone in Emond's Field knew, and that was that.

— In our words · Source: The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)

[Use when]

Use when a team insists on one global label for a thing that already has two living names.

[Why it matters]

Local convention is absolute inside the village — humor from outside does not rewrite the map.

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