Soft drink is 13th century little girl shocker.

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From CNN;
yesterday;

LONDON, England (AP) -- 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 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.

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow - that's pretty odd. From reading the thread title, I thought this was going to be about the discovery of some sort of high electro-ectoplasmic conductivity in carbonated liquids. I was thinking "Damn! Someone stole my thesis!".

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(mental note..."steal his thesis")

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh c'mon, there has to be some hippie's daughter somewhere named "Sierra Mist."

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

thank God my twins Shasta and Fanta are safe from ridicule

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Irn-Bru would be a cool name tho'

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't there a 'Simpsons' with a Brazilian kid Homer erroneously calls Pepsi?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I0HK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pure80spop.co.uk/Images1/pepsiandshirlie.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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