Abyssinia, Henry you". In the 1920s and 1930s Abyssinia was the name for the country now called Ethiopia.) It is mistakenly said that this slang was frequently used by the Henry Blake character throughout his years on the show. In fact, whenever Blake would bid farewell, it was usually by saying "goom-bye", though Blake did use this term at least once. The highly controversial ending to the episode, which has since been referenced and parodied many times, prompted more than 1,000 letters to series producers Gene Reynolds and Larry Gelbart, and drew fire from both CBS and 20th Century Fox. After the
Name of Georgia (country) Russian exonym Gruziya (Грузия ['gruzʲɪjə]) is of Persian origin, from Persian: گرجستان "Gorjestân" (Turkish Gürcistan "Gurjistan", Ossetian: Гуырдзыстон "Gwyrdzyston"). The Russian name first occurs in the travel records of Ignatiy Smolnyanin as "gurzi" (гурзи) (1389) and Afanasy Nikitin as "gurzynskaya zemlya" (Гурзыньская земля, "Gurzin land") (1466–72). The Russian name was brought into several Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Macedonian, Ukrainian) as well as other language historically in contact with the Russian Empire (such as Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Hungarian, Yiddish, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur, Chinese, Japanese, Korean). It also entered the contemporary Hebrew as גרוזיה ("Gruz-ia"). It coexisted