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Dorothy is something of a family name - a distant cousin married a beautiful, redhaired Dorothy - so I've always looked at it with enthusiasm. Dorothea ... is long. And rhythmically unpleasing to me, like Isabella. I prefer the livelier rhythm of, say, Victoria and Elizabeth.

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I knew a delightful Dorothy at school; she was mostly Dorothy but sometimes Doth, because her parents said she was a Little Busy Bee! Personally, I'd prefer Dorrie to Dodie and Dottie.