Witchcraft holidays in 2022 will provide an opportunity for practitioners to come together and celebrate their spiritual practices. These holidays hold deep significance and serve as a time to honor the Earth, the cycles of nature, and the power of magic. The Wheel of the Year, a calendar followed by many witches, includes eight major holidays that mark the changing seasons. These holidays, also known as Sabbats, are divided into two categories: the solstices and equinoxes, which mark the sun's position in the sky, and the cross-quarter days, which fall between the solstices and equinoxes. The first Sabbath of the year is Imbolc, which falls on February 2nd. Imbolc is a time to celebrate the first signs of spring and the return of light after the darkness of winter.

Why is Minnie called "Minni" in Italian and not Topolina?

Donald is called Paperino in Italian.
Daisy is called Paperina in Italian.
Mickey is called Topolino in Italian.
Minnie is called Minni in Italian.

Is there a reason why? How did this happen? You'd think, following the pattern, she'd be called Topolina or something? Why take the original American name and just remove the "e"?

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Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Nov 8, 2018 11:00:44 GMT

The "e" was removed because the sound of "Minnie" in Italian is obtained just by writing "Minni".
If they had gone with "Minnie", the Italians of the 30's - most of them barely spook and understood correct Italian, left alone English - would have read her name as you read "Mine-ni-è" in French. The final e is not mute (there is no mute letter in Italian other then "h").
If Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse would be created today, they would not be renamed nor respelled in Italy, of course.

The reason why she was not called Topolina is a mystery. My guess is that it sounded very inappropriate. In spoken (and gross) Italian, "bella topa" ("beautiful female mouse") can be used to mean "beautiful woman" in a sexist gross way. As a matter of fact, "topa" is one of the thousands ways Italians have to vulgarly denote the vagina, and by sexist extension a whole woman or girl that you are interested in only for sexual reasons. "Topolina", i.e. "little female mouse", is less used in this sense, but still it can.

(Following the same logic, the vulgar way of calling a rat, a greater and dirtier mouse, namely "zoccola", is used to denote prostitutes. You can imagine in the last 90 years how many times someone in Italy has made a bad joke on the equation Minnie = prostitute. )

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Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Nov 8, 2018 11:19:02 GMT

(Following the same logic, the vulgar way of calling a rat, a greater and dirtier mouse, namely "zoccola", is used to denote prostitutes. You can imagine in the last 90 years how many times someone in Italy has made a bad joke on the equation Minnie = prostitute. )

I just googled "minni zoccola". Apparently there is also a book.
The title is roughly: Careful Mickey, Minnie is a b***h! Subtitle: the basics to survive in a relationship.

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