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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[(Anonymous)]

Or another language possibility is that maybe if theirs is a gendered language (I think that's the term?), certain words are always either masculine or feminine. Like in French, France is always "la France" (feminine), but Mexico is always "le Mexique" (masculine). It's a grammar thing, and doesn't reflect whether a thing even has a biological sex.

--Handmaiden

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, this is really interesting.