Sort of like church latin and non church latin. I forget what non-church is called. I'm probably just imagining Ciceronian, since the word Cicero is used as an example. May it's just called latin. I had four years of the church type, which I highly forget.
osso, this is an interesting article on Anglization (or Anglisation, if you prefer) but I still don't understand why in the dickens Livorno would be called Leghorn. Unless they ignored the people while stealing their chickens.
Totally agree, Roboida, even though I've never reckoned the tomato to be a fruit. I know all about that La Pomme D'Amour love apple crap (pardon my French) but I still say if something grows in my veggie patch it's a veggie, unless it's a slug or a snake.
And as for the world bein' round, don't even get me started on that rubbish.
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Frank Apisa
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Tue 16 Jul, 2013 12:13 pm
As for sandwich…we in New Jersey definitely say sangwich or sangwitch.
Nobody here in New Jersey (‘cepting me) ever pronounces the “p” in raspberry.
I know several people here who pronounce Wednesday like it is spelled.
The leghorn, btw, is commonly known as Italian ("Italiener") in German.
(Livorno is "Livorno".)
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ossobuco
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Tue 16 Jul, 2013 01:47 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Mine was a play on deo gratias - I've got to stop the playing, I'm sort of manic after being in a total down dump for many days. Ordinarily, I'd just say gratias, as say, a person on the street in old Rome.
......and the answer to the Adeeeedas, Addydas question in the vid?
Sorry Americans, but it's Addydas.
Walter will no doubt give further detail, but Adidas was owned by a man called Adolf Dassler, and his nickname was Adi Dass.
His brother, who fell out with him years before, went and opened a factory on the other side of town as a direct competitor to Adi.
His firm was called Puma.
So none of this adeeee stuff, addy das from now on. I shall be listening.
