Just for the taste...
2004-03-11 17:38:34.9631+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Just in case you thought the use of oddly spelled names was a recent phenomenon, Archivist George Redmonds found reference to the name "Diot Coke" in 1379:
Researchers at Britain's National Archives believe that the little girl, born in West Riding in 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.
The girl's surname is believed to be a variation on the name Cook.
I'll drink to that. I'm trying to work in some sort of "Diot of Wurms" Luther-ish reference here, but it's not working out.