Doris

[poliphilo]

When did Doris become a comedy name? Is it all down to Doris Day? Most classical Greek names have a certain fizz to them but Doris is as flat as week old lemonade.

Anyway, Storm Doris is here. Winds of 94 mph have been recorded and commensurate damage done, but not locally, I think. Here it just got a bit noisy. Later I'll have a stroll round the fields to see if anything substantial has been broken. We were expecting Julia to come and do some gardening but she's stayed away; sensible woman.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Doris was an old-fashioned stuffy sort of name even when I was a kid. And Doris Archer associated the name with a homely sort of old-fashioned woman.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Of course, Dan and Doris- I'd forgotten them.