On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:22:44 UTC, John Cartmell
wrote:

Tit is an old Germanic word for "small" and is used in various northern
European languages to refer to small objects, animals, or people, especially
girlsfor example, titta is a Norwegian dialect word for "little girl."

Hence "Titty" in Swallows & Amazons.

Actually, not...funnily enough, have just been putting our Ransomes on a
new shelf.....

In the BBC series, they sanitised it to 'Kitty'. The real name was, of
course, Letitia, but she hated the name.

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