A-Z of English words with surprising origins
perhaps you bedouin stop crossposting this filth to rte
"Hatunen" kirjoitti
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:41:52 +0100, Giovanni Drogo
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Miles Vaches wrote:
Regatta, from Venetian dialect, it originally signified any kind of
contest.
I may just repeat what I said a while ago (april 2008) in another thread
on r.t.e. As a native speaker of Italian, a language where double
consonants are significant, I'm always puzzled by the fact in English
you write "regatta" with 2 t's, while in Italian we write "regata" with
one t.
The answer is quite simple: "regatta" is an English word,
"regata" an Italian word. I'm not trying to be flip; ths is a
very important language concept that some have a hard time
accepting.
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