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I read this as Betty White and was so confused. I guess I don't know of very many people named Betty.

• conductr 5y ago
  Me too and I was confused why the news just made it here, thought this must be a great Rolling Stones article to be trending on HN 5-6 weeks after she passed. Then, oh, nope, that’s not Betty white…
• singlow 5y ago
  More confusingly, I first thought of Bette Davis who died in 1989.
  • mc32 5y ago
    Yeah, given the original and the cover of the song Bette Davis Eyes, it's not hard to confuse who's who.
• ghaff 5y ago
  It's (at least mostly) a diminutive for Elizabeth (or Elisabeth more recently) but Elizabeth has declined a lot in the past few decades. I'd also (very anecdotally) observe that diminutives like Liz have probably become more popular than Betty.