These may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: ‘balance’ and ‘John Ballance’, ‘war’ and ‘Evelyn Waugh’, ‘marshal’ and ‘George Marshall’. Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter. Furthermore, personal names themselves have spelling variations, e.g., ‘Catherine’, ‘Katharine’ and ‘Kathryn’, or ‘Stewart’ and ‘Stuart’, and sometimes, a writer may be unaware of the correct spelling of a given individual’s name.