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Never knew one, but I have met a couple women named Deedra or Deidra. That seems to be the American rendering of it. It's definitely easier to say than Deirdre.
In Betty MacDonald's memoir of her time in a TB hospital "The Plague and I" she mentions another patient named Deirdre, only her mother got it from a book and evidently didn't know how to say it, because Betty at first thought her name was Durdree and that it was "some native Swedish name."
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
In Betty MacDonald's memoir of her time in a TB hospital "The Plague and I" she mentions another patient named Deirdre, only her mother got it from a book and evidently didn't know how to say it, because Betty at first thought her name was Durdree and that it was "some native Swedish name."
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
