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HelpRe: Dina(h) (edited to clarify pronouciation)
in reply to a message by Murasaki
My great-grandmother's sister was Dinah, but in various census reports she appears as Diana and even Dianah, poor woman. It was pronounced Die-na.
We had two cats, Katie the Kitty and Alice the Alley-Cat. Litter sisters, who lived to a great age - one 19, the other 20. When they were about 15 we got a black kitten whom we named Dinah with memories of Alice in Wonderland; it works very well on a cat, and a great-great aunt.
I also know a Dinah who read Kafka as a teenager and started calling herself Dee; before that she'd been Die. Her husband found this out when their children were grown up, and was comically horrified.
We had two cats, Katie the Kitty and Alice the Alley-Cat. Litter sisters, who lived to a great age - one 19, the other 20. When they were about 15 we got a black kitten whom we named Dinah with memories of Alice in Wonderland; it works very well on a cat, and a great-great aunt.
I also know a Dinah who read Kafka as a teenager and started calling herself Dee; before that she'd been Die. Her husband found this out when their children were grown up, and was comically horrified.
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