Funny question

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Why isn't the country Attolia called Attolis? The common thread running through the countries' names seems to indicate that the kings are called after the country - Sounis, Eddis - and that the queens are a female version of that - Eddia, Sounia, and Attolia. Do you think there's some sort of unmentioned history that resulted in the country being named after their queen?

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[filkferengi]

You know, we don't really know what alphabet they use. It could be, if they use something not ours, the name of the country would always look the same, with just the final sound changing with the gender of the ruler. They you'd only have to change how to say it, not how to spell it, kind of like how Hebrew is written with just consonants & the vowels are dots that may or may not be added around the consonants.