I, personally, suspect "Palpatine" was a regnal name.
The other possibility for Obi-Wan becoming Ben is... well, little kids sometimes have trouble with certain sounds. What if, when he was young, he had trouble with the "w"? Him saying his own name would become "Obi-an", and that is not a far stretch to "Ben", pronounciation-wise. Yes, that theory draws a lot on a book I once read wherein the character runs away from home and renames herself Meanne, from Anastacia
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Date: 2005-08-22 08:09 pm (UTC)The other possibility for Obi-Wan becoming Ben is... well, little kids sometimes have trouble with certain sounds. What if, when he was young, he had trouble with the "w"? Him saying his own name would become "Obi-an", and that is not a far stretch to "Ben", pronounciation-wise.
Yes, that theory draws a lot on a book I once read wherein the character runs away from home and renames herself Meanne, from Anastacia