Amharic WOW

word of the week

Sometimes you are both known and unknown. Obviously, in different senses, otherwise we have a pretty nasty contradiction. This week’s word is አበባ (abeba). This word is found in the name of Ethiopia’s capital city. Sadly, when transliterating it into English, 99% of people mess up and write ababa.

This is dumb for a few of reasons. Number one, e is a supe…