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Help[Opinions] Re: Dolly/Dot
in reply to a message by queenv
I've just been thinking lately about how I think so critically about baby and/or little kids, but not adults. As in I heard about a little baby named Roger and thought "why on earth?" yet my father-in-law is named Roger and I never really thought it was a horrible name.
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If I think of a friend naming their baby Dorothy or Dolores and calling her Dolly, I think it's super lame. Doll too. Cheesy and lame. But I know a 30-something named Dolly and I've never really been critical of it. Weird.
Anyway, Dolly is too girly-cheesy-lame for me, but it makes sense as a nickname for Dolores if that's your speed. Dorothy nn Dolly is kinda farfetched for me.
I love love love Dot as a nickname for Dorothy. I had a school bus driver named Dorothy who we all called Dot from Kindergarten through grade 6. She was awesome and I've loved the name and nickname since then.
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
To peruse my non-name musings: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
This is connected...
If I think of a friend naming their baby Dorothy or Dolores and calling her Dolly, I think it's super lame. Doll too. Cheesy and lame. But I know a 30-something named Dolly and I've never really been critical of it. Weird.
Anyway, Dolly is too girly-cheesy-lame for me, but it makes sense as a nickname for Dolores if that's your speed. Dorothy nn Dolly is kinda farfetched for me.
I love love love Dot as a nickname for Dorothy. I had a school bus driver named Dorothy who we all called Dot from Kindergarten through grade 6. She was awesome and I've loved the name and nickname since then.
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
To peruse my non-name musings: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
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Because you used the word "farfetched" regarding Dolly as a nickname for Dorothy, I wanted to point out that it has been used as such since the sixteenth century. I know that you may already be aware of that, and you just mean that it doesn't intuitively make sense to you, the way that I've seen people here say that Polly doesn't make sense to them as a nickname for Mary, even though they know that it started out as one. I just thought it was worth mentioning in case there are some who don't know, and thought that Dorothy nn Dolly is something that I came up with.
What I didn't know until just now is that the word "doll" came from the nickname Doll. Probably. This site says it did, without any modifiers, but Merriam-Webster says it "probably" did:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doll
I wonder what dolls were called previously. Maybe poppets?
What I didn't know until just now is that the word "doll" came from the nickname Doll. Probably. This site says it did, without any modifiers, but Merriam-Webster says it "probably" did:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doll
I wonder what dolls were called previously. Maybe poppets?
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Ah yes, another one of "those". No, I didn't know that. Nor would I imagine a lot of people my age and younger would. And so whether or not it was originally logical, it would still seem far-fetched to a lot of people. (It was probably me who said that about Polly and Mary too.) My opinion remains unchanged, but thanks for the info.
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Ah yes, another one of "those".
What does this mean, precisely?
I don't remember at all who has said that Polly doesn't make sense as a nickname for Mary, but it has been more than one person.
You're welcome. I know that I'm always grateful to learn something about a subject of interest to me.
What does this mean, precisely?
I don't remember at all who has said that Polly doesn't make sense as a nickname for Mary, but it has been more than one person.
You're welcome. I know that I'm always grateful to learn something about a subject of interest to me.
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I guess "those" just meant a name with a nickname that has a logical explanation at the time that is was originally used but now doesn't seem very logical to me at all.
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