People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.

华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字

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