Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | James Worlton <jamesworlton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 2:50 |
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--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:13:12 -0400, "Mark J. Reed"
> <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
>
> >That's an interesting rule. Why just those two
> languages? Why not,
> >say, the "modern Latin", Italian? "I'd like two
> large pepperoni pizze,
> >please. With some pepperoncini on the side - not
> just one pepperoncino
> >like last time, either."
>
> Some musical terms borrowed from Italian optionally
> have Italian plurals:
> tempo / tempi (or tempos). Well, maybe just that
> one. I'm sure there must
> be others, but I can't think of any.
Here are a few more:
Concerto/concerti
cello/celli (or violoncello/violoncelli -- this one is
perhaps less common)
ritornello/ritornelli
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James Worlton
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