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Re: Biddy name variants
Posted by: Marcos Reilly (ID *****8238) Date: October 01, 2002 at 09:35:03
In Reply to: Biddy name variants by Murray leonard of 465

Biddy has many variants, including Beatty, Beaddie, Beattie, Biddie, even Batty. But they all begin with "B," and the substitution of a "W" seems phonologically unlikely. I would guess that Widdy is a shortened version of Dinwiddie, also spelled Dinwiddy, which like Biddy is originally Scottish.


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