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Help[Opinions] Someone's got a dramatic emo teenager for a mom...
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Abyssina? Like "My soul is a deep, dark abyss?"
Poor girl.
Poor girl.
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Um, no . . .
It's not Abyssina, it's Abyssinia, as in the country. Abyssinia is an older name for Ethiopia. As in Abyssinian cats and so forth.
It's not Abyssina, it's Abyssinia, as in the country. Abyssinia is an older name for Ethiopia. As in Abyssinian cats and so forth.
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Uurgh, Abyssinia sounds like the kind of name a fascist enthusiast in Italy would have given in his daughter after the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. I've heard actually of an Italian woman named Ethiopia and another one named Tripolina after the battle of Tripoli in Lybia, who apparently forced her son to name his daughter after her. In Italy there's still the custom of naming babies after their grandparents, but with a name like that, it shows a certain amount of ego.
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