CHAT: Little worms (was: CHAT: Pronunciation (Re: Whiteness?))
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 10, 2000, 19:32 |
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At 1:54 pm +0200 9/9/00, Mangiat wrote:
>> Mangiat wrote:
>> > Worms pronounced as if it were an English town /worms/
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>> Which makes the name Diet of Worms rather amusing. :-) I can't
>> remember exactly what the Diet of Worms was, but it was an event in the
>> schism between Catholic and Lutheran.
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>Fortunately in Italian 'worms' sounds 'vermi' /vErmi/, which doesn't allow
>you to confuse the 'Dieta di Worms' from a 'dieta di vermi' : )
Dieta di vermicelli? :)
Ray.
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