Traditions merge & mingle, crossing cultural boundaries to plant new roots in the soil of other lands.

An exemplary case can be found in Liverpool, where in the Mexican quarter of the Baltic Triangle revellers celebrate
‘Diddy Dias de los Doddy’
or in Scouse,
“De Day of de Dodd”

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In the countryside around Cambridge a whole host of dialect persisted into the 20th century, including:
Doddy = small
Fourses = afternoon meal eaten by workers in the fields
Slud = wet mud
Fen nightingales = frogs

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Happy Doddy Day.
I’m so glad I got to experience Ken Dodd perform.
He was a master of his art.
He just had to appear in my Liverpool Liver Birds book.

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Another mind-boggling dance sequence from The Ken Dodd Laughter Show. It starts innocently enough - Doddy and some dancing girls - but after that ….

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And another duo of very stylish posters from Eric Rohman - Pola Negri in a German comedy film KOMTESSE DODDY (1919) & dynamic Douglas Fairbanks in BOUND IN MOROCCO (1918) directed by Allan Dwan...

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Collaborating tonight with () and Doddy Hamson ()

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