In case any of you hadn't noticed my mind has a proclivity to take off on its own tangents and often wanders the back roads of rational thought,this will be further proof. Once again it has led me to a blog that is about something really trivial,something I have wondered about before but only recently set to finding out. The question this particular time is why is Bambi a female nickname when Bambi was a male deer? The female counterpart to Bambi was Faline,so wouldn't that be more fitting? The answer is surprisingly simple. The name Bambi was in use before Felix Salten wrote the novel about a male deer which the Disney movie was later based on. Satlen's book was published in German in 1923 and translated to English in 1928. In 1914 American novelist Marjorie Benton Cooke published her novel Bambi,the title character was a wealthy young American heiress. The name of the character is a nickname from Bambina,the feminine form of the Italian word for baby. Have fun asking your friends that seem to have an answer for everything if they know how Bambi came to be a female nickname!
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