Best dog I ever had was named
Matilda when we got her from the rescue centre. I knew a human
Matilda who went, attractively, by
Tilda (though it is close to being a diacritic ...) and a French
Mathilde who was always called
Mattie.
Musical issues, perhaps? Waltzing
Matilda? And there was a calypso song, MAH til DAH, MAH til DAH, MAH til DAH, she took me money and run Venezuela. I could have got the words wrong, but not very wrong!