Posted by Jenny Berki on August 26, 2006 at 18:34:23 from 82.36.97.120 user JennyB.
In Reply to: Re: Not just the S's and A's posted by Owen Roberts on August 15, 2006 at 15:40:04:
Both the D's are great characters. Did AR think of their names first and then their collective noun, or was it the other way round? He had to give them a collective noun, all the other groups of children have them (Swallows, Amazons, Eels, Death & Glories, Twins (he couldn't really call the Twins the Flashers I suppose!)).
Would the stories have worked so well if the D's were G's? Or J's? Or anything else? Interesting that Daisy, Dum & Dee (and even Don) were also a set of D's.
I always think of the D's as living in Cambridge, and travelling through London on their way to/from school. Did Cambridge have an ice rink in the 1930's?