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Re:Betty Davis has died by irrational on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:03PM (#30292492)
I read this as Betty White and was so confused. I guess I don't know of very many people named Betty.
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Re:Betty Davis has died by singlow on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:11PM (#30292603)
More confusingly, I first thought of Bette Davis who died in 1989.
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Re:Betty Davis has died by mc32 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:29PM (#30292897)
Yeah, given the original and the cover of the song Bette Davis Eyes, it's not hard to confuse who's who.
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Re:Betty Davis has died by ghaff on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:32PM (#30292940)
It's (at least mostly) a diminutive for Elizabeth (or Elisabeth more recently) but Elizabeth has declined a lot in the past few decades. I'd also (very anecdotally) observe that diminutives like Liz have probably become more popular than Betty.
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Re:Betty Davis has died by conductr on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:11PM (#30292611)
Me too and I was confused why the news just made it here, thought this must be a great Rolling Stones article to be trending on HN 5-6 weeks after she passed. Then, oh, nope, that’s not Betty white…
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