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Help[Opinions] Re: Ditty
in reply to a message by Candle Wood
I can kind of see it as a sort of baby-talk nn for Elizabeth, and maybe even for Katherine. Katherine only because when I was very little, just learning to talk, I called kitty-cats ditty-dats. One of my uncles liked this so much he started calling kittens dittens.
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"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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I was thinking baby talk as well. If that's the case it could really be a nickname for anything. Presumably with a D or a T sound in the name but not necessarily. My aunt had difficulty with speech as a child and called herself Doddie (for Leslie).
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I know a little girl ...
Named Penelope, and though she can say it now, when she was first talking she couldn't manage Penelope and what she ended up saying sounded like Ralphie, and for a long time her family even called her that.
They should have called her Penny.
Named Penelope, and though she can say it now, when she was first talking she couldn't manage Penelope and what she ended up saying sounded like Ralphie, and for a long time her family even called her that.
They should have called her Penny.
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