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[Opinions] Re: Dina(h) (edited to clarify pronouciation)
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.
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