I sayeth, goode sirs, "Enjoyeth Thee Diot Coke!"

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Tue Mar-09-04 11:25 PM
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I sayeth, goode sirs, "Enjoyeth Thee Diot Coke!"

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2628349

Naming your child after a popular soft drink could be seen as a little bit faddish but the parents of young Diot Coke might be forgiven � they gave their baby daughter the name way back in 1379.

Researchers at the National Archives believe that the little girl, born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was the unfortunate victim of the corruption of the name Dionisia. One of the diminutives derived from that name on its path to the modern day Denise was Diot.

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