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20 May 99 - 09:49 PM (#80314) Subject: Miss Dorothy, Dorothy From: John Hindsill I hope this is seen by a calypsonian or someone from the West Indies familiar with calypso: I have several older songs in which the name of the girl is Dorothy or Miss Dorothy. Is (was) this local slang for a girl generically, or perhaps a convention to denote 'the other woman' or perhaps a woman of [delicately, John] easy virtue? Or maybe the syllables of the name just fit well. TIA-John |
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20 May 99 - 09:56 PM (#80316) Subject: RE: Miss Dorothy, Dorothy From: Barry Finn ?? Dou Dou ?? West Indian term for a female sweetheart. Barry |
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19 Apr 11 - 04:09 AM (#3138025) Subject: RE: Miss Dorothy, Dorothy From: MorwenEdhelwen1 I am not West Indian (Chinese Australian) nor a calypsonian (I want to be one, but I don't know whether foreigners/non-West Indians are allowed to become calypsonians) but it could just have been a popular woman's name which was so common that it became a standard name in songs in the same way as Nancy or Sally in British songs. |
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03 Jun 11 - 09:21 AM (#3164686) Subject: RE: Miss Dorothy, Dorothy From: MorwenEdhelwen1 In fact, I have started a thread on Macbeth the Great's song "Dorothy One Morning", which might suggest that Dorothy was a prostitute. "I went on a spree one morning, I went to see Dorothy one morning." |