Dodie

Dodie is a nickname for Dorothy. How in the world did we get Dodie from Dorothy? According to Ask Oxford, Dodie is the result of a small child trying to pronounce "Dorothy" and failing miserably. That's good, because that's about what I had guessed--although how in the world Oxford knows this to be true is beyond me. The author of 101 Dalmatians (the original novel,) was Dodie Smith. Television experts--and people even older than I am--might remember that there was a Dodie on My Three Sons for a while. She was played by Dawn Lyn. Dodie is a good name for a cat, or perhaps a small dog.