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Re: Dora

by Dianatiger

6/25/2021, 10:08 AM

Oh that's kinda cute, Deborah nn Dora is better than Deborah nn Deb imo. Deb is just frumpy.

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- Anneza

6/25/2021, 1:14 PM

Dora, full name Deborah, was a Jew, so would presumably have been familiar with a pronunciation something like d'VORa. That seems to lead more convincingly to Dora than the usual DEBora, for which Deb is pretty inevitable as a nn.

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